Flight number record
UA 2620
United Airlines · Orlando to San Francisco
- Route
- MCO → SFO
- Departs
- 19:03
- Flights
- 282
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2620, check with United Airlines.
UA 2620 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 282 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2620 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 79 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 278 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.71%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 282 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2620 flies
UA 2620 flies MCO to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:03, used on 53 of 282 flights, with 16:55 (52 flights) and 18:30 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 19:0353 flights18.8%
- Departs 16:5552 flights18.4%
- Departs 18:3037 flights13.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 19:03 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 2620 runs level with that at 69.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 2620 next to MCO to SFO
Every carrier on MCO to SFO combined arrived on time 79.7% of the time across 1,378 flights, so UA 2620 is 10 points behind it. United flew 1,100 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2620thin sample | 282 | 69.4% | 72 min | 0.71% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on MCO–SFO | 1,100 | 81.6% | 64 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All carriers on MCO–SFO | 1,378 | 79.7% | 63 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2620 quarter by quarter
UA 2620 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 71 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights70.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.2%
- Apr–Jun 202670 flights60.0%
- Jul–Sep 202655 flights72.2%
Scale runs 50% to 80%.
By weekday, UA 2620 did best on Tuesday at 87.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 59.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2620 runs when it is late
UA 2620 often beats the schedule: 77 of 278 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 85 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early77 flights27.7%
- Within 15 min116 flights41.7%
- 15–29 min late28 flights10.1%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights10.1%
- 2+ hours late14 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 278 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 107 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 35 still arrived on time. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2620
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 4 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 January 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 June 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2620 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 6,104 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,095 minutes out of 6,104, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,104 delay minutes reported on UA 2620.
Cancellations are rare at 0.71%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
15.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 2,446 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including SFO to ATL (95), RIC to DEN (21) and TPA to ORD (21), but none flew often enough under UA 2620 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 282 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking UA 2620
For a booking, UA 2620 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 15.1% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to MCO, the return direction
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.