Flight number record
UA 2744
United Airlines · New Orleans to Houston
- Route
- MSY → IAH
- Departs
- 05:15
- Flights
- 305
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2744, check with United Airlines.
UA 2744 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 305 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2744's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 171 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 303 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 305 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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.
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Schedule
When UA 2744 flies
UA 2744 flies MSY to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:15, used on 185 of 305 flights, with 05:00 (95 flights) next.
- Departs 05:15185 flights60.7%
- Departs 05:0095 flights31.1%
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 05:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2744 runs 5 points better at 94.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2744 next to MSY to IAH
Every carrier on MSY to IAH combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 2,910 flights, so UA 2744 is 11 points ahead of it. United flew 2,740 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2744thin sample | 305 | 94.4% | 111 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on MSY–IAH | 2,740 | 83.2% | 75 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSY–IAH | 2,910 | 83.2% | 79 min | 0.38% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2744 quarter by quarter
UA 2744 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 76 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 202589 flights91.0%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights96.5%
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights100.0%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2744 ranged from 88.1% on Sunday to 97.8% on Monday. With about 44 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2744 runs when it is late
UA 2744 often beats the schedule: 174 of 303 completed flights, 57%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 17 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights57.4%
- Within 15 min112 flights37.0%
- 15–29 min late5 flights1.7%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 303 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 303 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2744
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 June 2026, 15 hours 17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2026 | 15 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 1 hour 46 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 June 2026 | 1 hour 45 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2744 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 1,893 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,893 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 1,893 delay minutes reported on UA 2744.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including IAH to SFO (124), SFO to SEA (106) and IAH to MIA (37), but none flew often enough under UA 2744 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSY to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 305 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 2744
For a booking, UA 2744 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.4% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to MSY, 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.