UA1213

UA1213 arrived on time 73.1% of the time, against 76.4% for all EWR → MCO flights, so this departure is 3.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.6 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 669 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1213 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

UA1213 has cancelled 1.49% of its scheduled departures (10 of 669), against 2.70% for all EWR → MCO flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about UA1213 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1213 on EWR → MCO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026

The aircraft flying UA1213 came in 15 or more minutes late on 12% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 361 of 659 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026

UA1213 pushes back an average of 20.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 15.3 minutes late. The 4.9 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 24.3 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 2.3 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.

On arrival at MCO, UA1213 spends 10.1 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at MCO spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached MCO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,431 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA1213 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MCO (498,229 flights), not just UA1213’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026

UA1213 is scheduled out of EWR at 2:30 PM, in the 2 PM–3 PM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 76.5% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour UA1213 leaves in is an ordinary one for EWR and explains nothing about its record either way.

The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1213 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1213 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• UA1739 EWR→MCO United Airlines on the same route, departs 10:30 AM, on time 78.8%
• B61827 EWR→MCO JetBlue on the same route, departs 9:00 PM, on time 63.2%
• B6927 EWR→MCO JetBlue on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 86.7%
• UA1559 SNA→EWR United Airlines flight into EWR, SNA to EWR, departs 12:45 PM, on time 62.1%