Flight number record
UA 413
United Airlines · Orlando to Washington
- Route
- MCO → IAD
- Departs
- 16:17
- Flights
- 295
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 413, check with United Airlines.
UA 413 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 295 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 293 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 295 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 413 flies
UA 413 flies MCO to IAD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:17, used on 42 of 295 flights, with 16:03 (37 flights) and 16:20 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:1742 flights14.2%
- Departs 16:0337 flights12.5%
- Departs 16:2032 flights10.8%
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 16:17 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 413 runs 3 points better at 75.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 413 next to MCO to IAD
Every carrier on MCO to IAD combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 2,178 flights, so UA 413 is 7 points behind it. United flew 1,898 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 413thin sample | 295 | 75.8% | 96 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on MCO–IAD | 1,898 | 82.9% | 82 min | 0.63% | B+ |
| All carriers on MCO–IAD | 2,178 | 82.7% | 80 min | 0.92% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 413 quarter by quarter
UA 413 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.6%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 74 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 202561 flights65.6%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.2%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 413 did best on Monday at 85.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.9%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 413 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 6,813 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
45% 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 6,813 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 6,813 delay minutes reported on UA 413.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% 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 758 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including IAH to MCO (210), IAD to LAX (41) and IAH to PBI (1), but none flew often enough under UA 413 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to IAD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 295 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 413
For a booking, UA 413 is one of the weaker ways to fly MCO to IAD: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to IAD, every carrier and departure
- IAD to MCO, the return direction
- United Airlines 2065 on the same route83.7%
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.