Flight number record
UA 2674
United Airlines · Newark to Houston
- Route
- EWR → IAH
- Departs
- 15:59
- Flights
- 287
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2674, check with United Airlines.
UA 2674 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 287 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2674 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 81 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 287 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% 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 2674 flies
UA 2674 flies EWR to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:59, used on 66 of 287 flights, with 16:00 (44 flights) and 16:08 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 15:5966 flights23.0%
- Departs 16:0044 flights15.3%
- Departs 16:0837 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 15:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2674 runs 3 points worse at 69.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2674 next to EWR to IAH
Every carrier on EWR to IAH combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 3,798 flights, so UA 2674 is 10 points behind it. United flew 3,534 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2674thin sample | 287 | 69.5% | 82 min | 1.39% | C |
| All United Airlines on EWR–IAH | 3,534 | 80.4% | 74 min | 1.64% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–IAH | 3,798 | 79.6% | 75 min | 2.08% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2674 quarter by quarter
UA 2674 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 74.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 63.7%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 72 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 202592 flights63.7%
- Oct–Dec 202555 flights74.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.4%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights69.4%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2674 did best on Tuesday at 82.9% on time and worst on Wednesday at 53.7%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2674 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 7,032 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 27%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
37% 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 7,032 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 7,032 delay minutes reported on UA 2674.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.
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. 14.2% 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 1,400 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including TPA to EWR (83), IAH to SAN (48) and LGA to IAH (41), but none flew often enough under UA 2674 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 287 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 2674
For a booking, UA 2674 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.2% 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
- EWR to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to EWR, the return direction
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- United Airlines 2438 on the same route93.5%
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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.