Flight number record

UA 2652

United Airlines · Chicago to Cleveland

Route: ORD → CLE
Departs: 17:50
Flights: 278
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 56.7% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 21 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2652 runs 21 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 209 extra late arrivals.

On time

56.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.08%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

18.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 95 of 278 flights, with 18:10 (53 flights) and 18:20 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:5095 flights34.2%
Departs 18:1053 flights19.1%
Departs 18:2036 flights12.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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 68.2%, and UA 2652 runs 12 points worse at 56.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

UA 2652 next to ORD to CLE

Every carrier on ORD to CLE combined arrived on time 70.1% of the time across 4,899 flights, so UA 2652 is 13 points behind it. United flew 2,175 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 22 points.

UA 2652 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2652thin sample	278	56.7%	82 min	1.08%	D
All United Airlines on ORD–CLE	2,175	72.3%	72 min	1.29%	C
All carriers on ORD–CLE	4,899	70.1%	76 min	2.98%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 65.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 70 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 202543 flights65.1%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights50.0%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights50.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights63.3%

Scale runs 40% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2652 did best on Friday at 65.0% on time and worst on Monday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2652 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 9,780 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Carrier
21%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
8%

53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 9,780 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 9,780 delay minutes reported on UA 2652.

Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 18.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The same number turns up on nine other city pairs in the data, including JAC to ORD (108), BNA to ORD (77) and SEA to ORD (37), 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. 278 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. 18.9% 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.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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