Flight number record
UA 2662
United Airlines · Houston to Orlando
- Route
- IAH → MCO
- Departs
- 12:25
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2662, check with United Airlines.
UA 2662 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2662's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When UA 2662 flies
UA 2662 flies IAH to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:25, used on 205 of 364 flights, with 12:22 (85 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:25205 flights56.3%
- Departs 12:2285 flights23.4%
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 12:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2662 runs 8 points better at 86.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2662 next to IAH to MCO
Every carrier on IAH to MCO combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 3,669 flights, so UA 2662 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 2,471 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2662thin sample | 364 | 86.5% | 72 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–MCO | 2,471 | 85.1% | 71 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| All carriers on IAH–MCO | 3,669 | 81.6% | 82 min | 1.01% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2662 quarter by quarter
UA 2662 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 91 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 202591 flights77.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights91.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.2%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2662 ranged from 80.0% on Thursday to 90.4% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2662 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 3,435 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.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
54% 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 1,861 minutes out of 3,435, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,435 delay minutes reported on UA 2662.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% 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
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 854 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on ten other city pairs in the data, including MCO to LAX (48), MCO to ORD (45) and PBI to IAH (35), but none flew often enough under UA 2662 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 2662
For a booking, UA 2662 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.5% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.