Flight number record

UA 2682

United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston

Route: DFW → IAH
Departs: 15:59
Flights: 261
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2682 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 91 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights

Avg delay

101 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.53%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 261 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 2682 flies

UA 2682 flies DFW to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:59, used on 67 of 261 flights, with 15:45 (37 flights) and 15:55 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:5967 flights25.7%
Departs 15:4537 flights14.2%
Departs 15:5534 flights13.0%

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 2682 runs 4 points worse at 68.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2682 next to DFW to IAH

Every carrier on DFW to IAH combined arrived on time 69.8% of the time across 5,780 flights, so UA 2682 is about level with it. United flew 2,414 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 11 points.

UA 2682 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2682thin sample	261	68.5%	101 min	1.53%	C
All United Airlines on DFW–IAH	2,414	76.9%	86 min	1.99%	B
All carriers on DFW–IAH	5,780	69.8%	81 min	2.92%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 202592 flights69.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights62.6%
Jan–Mar 202637 flights97.1%
Apr–Jun 202640 flights55.0%

Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2682 did best on Monday at 78.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 54.5%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2682 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 8,154 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
28%
Extreme weather
6%

35% 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 8,154 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 8,154 delay minutes reported on UA 2682.

Cancellations sit at 1.53% 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. 11.7% 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 ten other city pairs in the data, including IAH to BWI (114), IAH to RSW (35) and IAH to CVG (32), 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, read UA 2682 as 68.5% on time with 1.53% cancelled over 261 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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