Flight number record
UA 658
United Airlines · Minneapolis to Chicago
- Route
- MSP → ORD
- Departs
- 17:14
- Flights
- 330
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 658, check with United Airlines.
UA 658 earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.1% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 330 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 658 runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 202 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.12%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 330 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 658 flies
UA 658 flies MSP to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:14, used on 84 of 330 flights, with 17:13 (61 flights) and 17:16 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 17:1484 flights25.5%
- Departs 17:1361 flights18.5%
- Departs 17:1640 flights12.1%
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 17:14 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 658 runs 11 points worse at 57.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 658 next to MSP to ORD
Every carrier on MSP to ORD combined arrived on time 70.0% of the time across 6,395 flights, so UA 658 is 13 points behind it. United flew 2,399 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 22 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 658thin sample | 330 | 57.1% | 86 min | 2.12% | D |
| All United Airlines on MSP–ORD | 2,399 | 69.7% | 87 min | 1.71% | C |
| All carriers on MSP–ORD | 6,395 | 70.0% | 83 min | 2.85% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 658 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 658 held fairly steady: 63.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 53.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 57.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 55.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 60.4% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights53.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights57.3%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights55.8%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights60.4%
Scale runs 45% to 70%.
By weekday, UA 658 did best on Tuesday at 75.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 43.5%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 658 runs when it is late
The 138 late arrivals split 44 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early31 flights9.6%
- Within 15 min153 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late44 flights13.7%
- 30–59 min late36 flights11.2%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late31 flights9.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 90 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 54 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 658
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 18 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 18 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 December 2025 | 7 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 December 2025 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 5 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 5 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 658 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%National Airspace System
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 11,885 delay minutes reported on UA 658.
Cancellations sit at 2.12% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
18.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including ORD to ONT (132), ORD to SAT (59) and PHX to ORD (16), but none flew often enough under UA 658 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 330 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 658
For a booking, UA 658 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.0% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to MSP, the return direction
- United Airlines 1531 on the same route54.6%
- Delta Air Lines 1544 on the same route82.9%
- United Airlines 576 on the same route71.0%
- United Airlines 758 on the same route76.9%
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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.