Flight number record
UA 722
United Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Houston
- Route
- FLL → IAH
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 262
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 722, check with United Airlines.
UA 722 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 722's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 127 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 262 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 722 flies
UA 722 flies FLL to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 158 of 262 flights, with 08:40 (48 flights) and 08:45 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 09:00158 flights60.3%
- Departs 08:4048 flights18.3%
- Departs 08:4536 flights13.7%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 722 runs 6 points better at 90.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 722 next to FLL to IAH
Every carrier on FLL to IAH combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 2,919 flights, so UA 722 is 9 points ahead of it. United flew 1,894 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.3% 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 722thin sample | 262 | 90.0% | 65 min | 0.38% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on FLL–IAH | 1,894 | 88.3% | 78 min | 0.63% | A+ |
| All carriers on FLL–IAH | 2,919 | 81.5% | 75 min | 1.30% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 722 quarter by quarter
UA 722 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 95.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 66 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.
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights89.6%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights95.5%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights90.7%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights80.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 722 did best on Monday at 94.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 81.1%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 722 runs when it is late
UA 722 often beats the schedule: 136 of 260 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early136 flights52.3%
- Within 15 min98 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.7%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.5%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 260 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 722
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 May 2026, 4 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 January 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 July 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 722 runs late
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 1,690 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 788 of the 1,690 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,690 delay minutes reported on UA 722.
Cancellations are rare at 0.38%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 966 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 CMH (125), IAD to PWM (3) and LAX to SFO (3), but none flew often enough under UA 722 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FLL to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 722
For a booking, UA 722 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.0% on time and 0.38% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to FLL, the return direction
- United Airlines 1696 on the same route78.5%
- United Airlines 2162 on the same route83.6%
- United Airlines 2314 on the same route97.1%
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
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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.