Flight number record
UA 2682
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston
- Route
- DFW → IAH
- Departs
- 16:01
- Flights
- 261
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2682, check with United Airlines.
UA 2682 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 an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2682 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 82 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 261 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2682 flies
UA 2682 flies DFW to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:01, used on 62 of 261 flights, with 15:59 (53 flights) and 15:45 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 16:0162 flights23.8%
- Departs 15:5953 flights20.3%
- Departs 15:4537 flights14.2%
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 16:01 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2682 runs 3 points worse at 69.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2682 next to DFW to IAH
Every carrier on DFW to IAH combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 5,800 flights, so UA 2682 is 2 points behind it. United flew 2,457 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2682thin sample | 261 | 69.1% | 86 min | 1.92% | C |
| All United Airlines on DFW–IAH | 2,457 | 79.1% | 81 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–IAH | 5,800 | 70.7% | 79 min | 2.43% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2682 quarter by quarter
UA 2682 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 97.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 55.0%, a swing of 42 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights62.6%
- Jan–Mar 202637 flights97.1%
- Apr–Jun 202640 flights55.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights70.5%
Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2682 did best on Monday at 78.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 57.6%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2682 runs when it is late
The 79 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early30 flights11.7%
- Within 15 min147 flights57.4%
- 15–29 min late25 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late21 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late20 flights7.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 256 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 58 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 29 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 IAH.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2682
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 June 2026, 8 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2026 | 8 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 June 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 July 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2682 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 6,820 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,820 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 6,820 delay minutes reported on UA 2682.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.9% 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 eight other city pairs in the data, including IAH to BWI (114), IAH to RSW (35) and IAH to CVG (21), but none flew often enough under UA 2682 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 261 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 2682
For a booking, UA 2682 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.9% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to DFW, 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.