Flight profile · United Airlines
UA2235
New Orleans (MSY) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 7:54 PM – 11:59 PM
How UA2235 performs
988 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
UA2235 arrived on time 73.9% of the time, against 83.4% for all MSY → EWR flights, so this departure is 9.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 988 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2235 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How UA2235 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 94% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 10 min early, but the worst tenth run 101 minutes worse than that.
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.
Where UA2235 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2235 | 73.9% | 2.43% | -10 min | 13.7% | 988 |
| United Airlines on MSY → EWR | 83.7% | 2.03% | -12 min | 7.9% | 3,251 |
| All MSY → EWR flights | 83.4% | 2.28% | -13 min | 8.1% | 3,988 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA2235 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2235 on MSY → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA2235 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA2235 pushed back an average of 75 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into MSY just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 950 of 965 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.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA2235 | 21% | 71% | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often UA2235’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA2235 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSY late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA2235 pushes back an average of 24.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 16.0 minutes late. The 8.9 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 14.5 minutes on the taxiways at MSY, 1.6 minutes longer than a typical MSY departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, UA2235 spends 8.9 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 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 9,346 departures from MSY scheduled in the clock hour UA2235 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at EWR (387,854 flights), not just UA2235’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MSY
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA2235 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 9,346 departures from MSY are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 154,321 across the whole day.
UA2235 is scheduled out of MSY at 7:54 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from MSY in that hour arrive on time 71.1% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MSY 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.
By day of week
Does UA2235 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 10.1 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes UA2235 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→CLE Orlando to Cleveland | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| IND→IAH Indianapolis to Houston | December 2–17, 2025 | 16 | — |
| FCA→IAH Kalispell to Houston | June 14–21, 2025 | 2 | — |
| IAH→MSY Houston to New Orleans | March 30, 2025 – April 30, 2025 | 28 | — |
| IAH→PHL Houston to Philadelphia | December 19, 2024 – January 6, 2025 | 19 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2235 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
91 min late
against a median of 10 min early
UA2235 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 10 min early, but the worst tenth are 101 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 988 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 988 records of UA2235 operating MSY → EWR, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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