Flight number record

UA 2744

United Airlines · New Orleans to Houston

Route: MSY → IAH
Departs: 05:15
Flights: 277
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2744's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 162 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights

Avg delay

111 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 158 of 277 flights, with 05:00 (95 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:15158 flights57.0%
Departs 05:0095 flights34.3%

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 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 93.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

UA 2744 next to MSY to IAH

Every carrier on MSY to IAH combined arrived on time 82.2% of the time across 2,961 flights, so UA 2744 is 12 points ahead of it. United flew 2,784 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

UA 2744 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2744thin sample	277	93.8%	111 min	0.36%	A+
All United Airlines on MSY–IAH	2,784	82.4%	74 min	0.47%	B+
All carriers on MSY–IAH	2,961	82.2%	76 min	0.51%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2744 quarter by quarter

UA 2744 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 69 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 202543 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights91.0%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights96.5%
Apr–Jun 202660 flights90.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2744 ranged from 87.2% on Sunday to 97.6% on Tuesday. With about 40 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 2744 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 1,893 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
59%
Carrier
17%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
7%

59% 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 1,893 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 1,893 delay minutes reported on UA 2744.

Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 (62), SFO to SEA (54) 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. 277 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: 93.8% on time and 0.36% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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