Flight number record
UA 793
United Airlines · Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ORD → DFW
- Departs
- 15:40
- Flights
- 296
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 793, check with United Airlines.
UA 793 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 793 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 112 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
19.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 296 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 793 flies
UA 793 flies ORD to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:40, used on 98 of 296 flights, with 15:35 (78 flights) and 15:44 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 15:4098 flights33.1%
- Departs 15:3578 flights26.4%
- Departs 15:4456 flights18.9%
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 15:40 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 793 runs 6 points worse at 66.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 793 next to ORD to DFW
Every carrier on ORD to DFW combined arrived on time 70.4% of the time across 7,111 flights, so UA 793 is 4 points behind it. United flew 2,080 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 793thin sample | 296 | 66.1% | 103 min | 2.70% | C |
| All United Airlines on ORD–DFW | 2,080 | 74.1% | 75 min | 1.30% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–DFW | 7,111 | 70.4% | 84 min | 2.69% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 793 quarter by quarter
UA 793 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 54.1%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 74 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights67.3%
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights70.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights67.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights54.1%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 793 did best on Tuesday at 75.0% on time and worst on Monday at 54.8%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 793 runs when it is late
UA 793 often beats the schedule: 75 of 286 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When UA 793 is late it tends to be very late: 56 of its 97 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 31 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights26.2%
- Within 15 min114 flights39.9%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late26 flights9.1%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late31 flights10.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 286 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 100 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 793
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 July 2026, 6 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | 6 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 May 2026 | 6 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 May 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 April 2026 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 793 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 10,016 delay minutes reported on UA 793.
Cancellations run at 2.70%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
19.6% 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 802 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 DCA to ORD (26), SFO to ORD (24) and FLL to EWR (21), but none flew often enough under UA 793 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 296 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 793
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 793: 2.70% of its 296 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to ORD, the return direction
- United Airlines 2290 on the same route74.6%
- United Airlines 1673 on the same route63.9%
- American Airlines 2896 on the same route85.1%
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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.