Flight number record
UA 465
United Airlines · Houston to Indianapolis
- Route
- IAH → IND
- Departs
- 20:03
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 465, check with United Airlines.
UA 465 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 465 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 65 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% 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 465 flies
UA 465 flies IAH to IND without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:03, used on 85 of 259 flights, with 19:59 (40 flights) and 18:10 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:0385 flights32.8%
- Departs 19:5940 flights15.4%
- Departs 18:1032 flights12.4%
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 20:03 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 465 runs level with that at 71.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 465 next to IAH to IND
Every carrier on IAH to IND combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 640 flights, so UA 465 is 8 points behind it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 465thin sample | 259 | 71.1% | 56 min | 1.16% | C |
| All United Airlines on IAH–IND | 640 | 78.7% | 59 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–IND | 640 | 78.7% | 59 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 465 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 465 held fairly steady: 70.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 65.9% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 75.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights70.5%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights65.9%
- Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202669 flights75.4%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 465 did best on Wednesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 55.6%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 465 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 4,170 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
51% 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 4,170 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 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 4,170 delay minutes reported on UA 465.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% 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. 10.5% 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 844 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 six other city pairs in the data, including SAN to IAH (134), SJC to IAH (48) and CID to ORD (21), but none flew often enough under UA 465 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to IND only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 259 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 465
For a booking, UA 465 is one of the weaker ways to fly IAH to IND: 8 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
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- 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.