UA2232

UA2232 arrived on time 90.2% of the time, against 73.3% for all ORD → MSP flights, so this departure is 16.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 17.2 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 880 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2232 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 99% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

90.2% on time for this specific departure, against 73.0% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2232 on ORD → MSP. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

UA2232 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8 hours on the ground at ORD, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

The aircraft flying UA2232 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% 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 ORD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 601 of 875 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 July 2023 – July 2026

UA2232 pushes back an average of 0.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at MSP an average of 4.9 minutes early. The 5.1 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 23.0 minutes on the taxiways at ORD, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical ORD departure in the same hour.

On arrival at MSP, UA2232 spends 4.9 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 1.9 minutes shorter than a typical MSP arrival (6.8 min).

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 MSP. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 67,479 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour UA2232 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MSP (369,815 flights), not just UA2232’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

UA2232 is scheduled out of ORD at 7:10 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 86.6% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.1 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from ORD 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2232 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA2232 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.

• UA658 MSP→ORD Return trip, MSP to ORD, departs 5:15 PM, on time 63.7%
• UA1996 ORD→SJU United Airlines flight out of ORD, ORD to SJU, departs 8:55 AM, on time 82.0%
• UA623 LGA→ORD United Airlines flight into ORD, LGA to ORD, departs 9:15 AM, on time 86.9%
• UA609 CLE→ORD United Airlines flight into ORD, CLE to ORD, departs 11:00 AM, on time 90.0%