Flight number record
UA 2652
United Airlines · Chicago to Cleveland
- Route
- ORD → CLE
- Departs
- 17:50
- Flights
- 327
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2652, check with United Airlines.
UA 2652 earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 55.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 22 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2652 runs 22 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 219 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
55.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.22%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
20.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 327 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2652 flies
UA 2652 flies ORD to CLE without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:50, used on 84 of 327 flights, with 18:10 (53 flights) and 17:45 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 17:5084 flights25.7%
- Departs 18:1053 flights16.2%
- Departs 17:4553 flights16.2%
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 17:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 2652 runs 13 points worse at 55.4%. 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 2652 next to ORD to CLE
Every carrier on ORD to CLE combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 4,893 flights, so UA 2652 is 15 points behind it. United flew 2,182 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 23 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2652thin sample | 327 | 55.4% | 89 min | 1.22% | D |
| All United Airlines on ORD–CLE | 2,182 | 71.8% | 78 min | 1.28% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–CLE | 4,893 | 70.8% | 78 min | 2.82% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2652 quarter by quarter
UA 2652 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 66.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 65 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.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights50.0%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights50.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights63.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights50.8%
Scale runs 40% to 70%.
By weekday, UA 2652 did best on Friday at 63.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 45.7%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2652 runs when it is late
The 144 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 65 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early38 flights11.8%
- Within 15 min141 flights43.7%
- 15–29 min late39 flights12.1%
- 30–59 min late40 flights12.4%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights9.0%
- 2+ hours late36 flights11.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 101 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 46 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLE.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2652
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 June 2026, 6 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2026 | 6 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 6 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 March 2026 | 5 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 June 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2652 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 12,840 delay minutes reported on UA 2652.
Cancellations sit at 1.22% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
20.1% 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.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including JAC to ORD (108), BNA to ORD (77) and SNA to ORD (36), but none flew often enough under UA 2652 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to CLE only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 327 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 2652
For a booking, UA 2652 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 20.1% 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
- ORD to CLE, every carrier and departure
- CLE to ORD, the return direction
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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.