Flight number record
UA 382
United Airlines · Washington to Houston
- Route
- DCA → IAH
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 382, check with United Airlines.
UA 382 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 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 362 flights, with a median arrival 20 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 382's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 121 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 20 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 382 flies
UA 382 flies DCA to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 106 of 362 flights, with 12:59 (68 flights) and 12:50 (61 flights) next.
- Departs 12:40106 flights29.3%
- Departs 12:5968 flights18.8%
- Departs 12:5061 flights16.9%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 382 runs 11 points better at 89.4%. 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 382 next to DCA to IAH
Every carrier on DCA to IAH combined arrived on time 80.3% of the time across 3,333 flights, so UA 382 is 9 points ahead of it. United flew 2,384 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 382thin sample | 362 | 89.4% | 101 min | 0.28% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on DCA–IAH | 2,384 | 83.5% | 85 min | 0.80% | B+ |
| All carriers on DCA–IAH | 3,333 | 80.3% | 79 min | 2.31% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 382 quarter by quarter
UA 382 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 81.4%, a swing of 15 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 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights81.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 382 ranged from 84.9% on Monday to 92.3% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 382 runs when it is late
UA 382 often beats the schedule: 219 of 360 completed flights, 61%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 38 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early219 flights60.8%
- Within 15 min103 flights28.6%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 382
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 8 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | 8 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 July 2026 | 5 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 382 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 3,831 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 38%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,448 of the 3,831 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,831 delay minutes reported on UA 382.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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
5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,208 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.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including IAH to SFO (201), ORD to DCA (74) and IAH to DFW (14), but none flew often enough under UA 382 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 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 382
For a booking, UA 382 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.4% on time and 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- DCA to IAH, every carrier and departure
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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.