Flight profile · United Airlines
UA2290
Chicago (ORD) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 12:45 PM – 3:48 PM
How UA2290 performs
619 operations, October 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ORD → DFW, UA2290 averaged about 6 operations a week (619 in 674 days, cancelled ones included).
UA2290 arrived on time 74.7% of the time, against 72.7% for all ORD → DFW flights, so this departure is 2.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.0 points worse.
UA2290’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 1:15 PM earlier on, and around 12:45 PM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 619 operations, October 2024 – August 2026 · If UA2290 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA2290 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2290 | 74.7% | 0.81% | -7 min | 10.3% | 619 |
| United Airlines on ORD → DFW | 75.7% | 1.01% | -6 min | 9.3% | 6,125 |
| All ORD → DFW flights | 72.7% | 1.93% | -5 min | 11.1% | 21,155 |
UA2290 has cancelled 0.81% of its scheduled departures (5 of 619), against 1.93% for all ORD → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 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 UA2290 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
Why UA2290 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 UA2290 on ORD → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA2290 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying UA2290 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into ORD: 513 of 614 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| UA2290 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
68 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often UA2290’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ORD late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
UA2290 pushes back an average of 17.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 10.0 minutes late. The 7.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 25.9 minutes on the taxiways at ORD, 2.8 minutes longer than a typical ORD departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, UA2290 spends 12.2 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 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 46,973 ORD departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves ORD
UA2290 has one departure time, 12:45 PM, so this is what that hour at ORD is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 46,973 departures from ORD are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 985,989 across the whole day.
UA2290 is scheduled out of ORD at 12:45 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 76.9% of the time against 74.2% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour UA2290 leaves in is an ordinary one for ORD and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ORD, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes UA2290 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. UA2290 also served these 10 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| EWR→ORD Newark to Chicago | February 15, 2024 – August 31, 2026 | 504 | 86.2% |
| DFW→EWR Dallas–Fort Worth to Newark | October 1, 2025 – March 28, 2026 | 65 | — |
| SAV→ORD Savannah to Chicago | October 26, 2025 – December 17, 2025 | 51 | — |
| DEN→AUS Denver to Austin | November 30, 2025 – December 1, 2025 | 2 | — |
| IAD→ORD Washington to Chicago | August 22, 2025 | 1 | — |
| DFW→IAH Dallas–Fort Worth to Houston | October 28–31, 2024 | 4 | — |
| ORD→ATL Chicago to Atlanta | July 1, 2023 – October 26, 2024 | 367 | 76.5% |
| ORD→BNA Chicago to Nashville | May 2–22, 2024 | 18 | — |
| PHX→ORD Phoenix to Chicago | July 1, 2023 – October 28, 2023 | 120 | 94.9% |
| ORD→DEN Chicago to Denver | September 29–30, 2023 | 2 | — |
The figures above describe only ORD → DFW, the route UA2290 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
60 min late
against a median of 7 min early
UA2290 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 7 min early, but the worst tenth are 67 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 619 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA760 | American Airlines | 89.3% | 7 min early | 627 |
| AA1109 | American Airlines | 79.2% | 10 min early | 822 |
| UA2290 this flight | United Airlines | 74.7% | 7 min early | 619 |
| UA793 | United Airlines | 72.5% | 4 min early | 901 |
| AA2499 | American Airlines | 68.3% | 0 min early | 662 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, UA2290 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 14.6 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 619 records of UA2290 operating ORD → DFW, 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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