Flight number record

UA 468

United Airlines · Houston to San Antonio

Route: IAH → SAT
Departs: 11:55
Flights: 280
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 468, check with United Airlines.

UA 468 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 280 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 468's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 99 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 280 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 468 flies

UA 468 flies IAH to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:55, used on 107 of 280 flights, with 12:10 (64 flights) and 12:15 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:55107 flights38.2%
Departs 12:1064 flights22.9%
Departs 12:1534 flights12.1%

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 11:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 468 runs 9 points better at 87.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 468 next to IAH to SAT

Every carrier on IAH to SAT combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 2,411 flights, so UA 468 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 2,326 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

UA 468 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 468thin sample	280	87.5%	66 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on IAH–SAT	2,326	82.6%	62 min	0.47%	B+
All carriers on IAH–SAT	2,411	82.4%	63 min	0.50%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 468 quarter by quarter

UA 468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 202574 flights79.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights89.0%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202649 flights89.8%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 468 did best on Sunday at 94.4% on time and worst on Friday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 468 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 2,314 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
46%
Carrier
26%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,314 delay minutes reported on UA 468.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 4.3% 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 four other city pairs in the data, including MCO to IAH (139), ORD to IAH (49) and FLL to IAH (30), but none flew often enough under UA 468 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to SAT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 280 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 468

For a booking, UA 468 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.5% on time and 0.00% 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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