UA2245

UA2245 arrived on time 91.1% of the time, against 77.6% for all IAH → MCO flights, so this departure is 13.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.5 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 860 operations, February 2024 – July 2026 · If UA2245 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 IAH → MCO route as a whole, better than 96% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

91.1% on time for this specific departure, against 77.6% for every IAH → MCO flight.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2245 on IAH → MCO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

UA2245 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8 hours on the ground at IAH, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

The aircraft flying UA2245 came in 15 or more minutes late on 17% 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 IAH just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 562 of 852 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 February 2024 – July 2026

UA2245 pushes back an average of 0.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 7.8 minutes early. The 8.6 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. Its 19.4 minutes on the taxiways at IAH is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at MCO, UA2245 spends 6.6 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 4.3 minutes shorter than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 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 MCO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 33,814 departures from IAH scheduled in the clock hour UA2245 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 UA2245’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2245 is scheduled out of IAH at 7:20 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from IAH in that hour arrive on time 87.9% of the time against 77.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from IAH 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 · February 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · February 2024 – 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 UA2245 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA2245 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.

• UA2662 IAH→MCO United Airlines on the same route, departs 12:25 PM, on time 84.0%
• UA496 IAH→MCO United Airlines on the same route, departs 2:35 PM, on time 77.2%
• UA1520 MCO→DEN United Airlines flight out of MCO, MCO to DEN, departs 12:25 PM, on time 86.6%
• UA787 IAH→ORD United Airlines flight out of IAH, IAH to ORD, departs 8:25 PM, on time 70.8%