Flight number record
UA 786
United Airlines · Wichita to Chicago
- Route
- ICT → ORD
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 310
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 786, check with United Airlines.
UA 786 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 310 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 786's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 305 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.29%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 310 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 786 flies
UA 786 flies ICT to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 245 of 310 flights, with 07:25 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:30245 flights79.0%
- Departs 07:2538 flights12.3%
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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 786 runs 6 points worse at 83.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
UA 786 next to ICT to ORD
Every carrier on ICT to ORD combined arrived on time 72.4% of the time across 2,225 flights, so UA 786 is 11 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 786thin sample | 310 | 83.6% | 92 min | 1.29% | B |
| All United Airlines on ICT–ORDthin sample | 312 | 83.7% | 92 min | 1.28% | B |
| All carriers on ICT–ORD | 2,225 | 72.4% | 90 min | 3.51% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 786 quarter by quarter
UA 786 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.3%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 78 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 202591 flights77.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights84.9%
- Apr–Jun 202640 flights92.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 786 did best on Thursday at 93.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 77.3%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 786 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 4,610 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.
- 48%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,694 minutes out of 4,610, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,610 delay minutes reported on UA 786.
Cancellations sit at 1.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 588 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.
UA 786 is not only a ICT to ORD flight. It also flew ORD to BTV (274 flights, 82.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 310 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD to BTVthin sample | 274 | 82.3% | 61 min | 0.36% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking UA 786
For a booking, read UA 786 as 83.6% on time with 1.29% cancelled over 310 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to ICT, the return direction
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.