Flight profile · United Airlines
UA2407
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Houston (IAH) · scheduled 5:00 PM – 7:10 PM
How UA2407 performs
708 operations, March 2024 – July 2026.
UA2407 arrived on time 77.1% of the time, against 81.0% for all RDU → IAH flights, so this departure is 3.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.5 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 708 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If UA2407 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA2407 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2407 | 77.1% | 0.99% | -3 min | 9.0% | 708 |
| United Airlines on RDU → IAH | 84.6% | 1.06% | -8 min | 6.1% | 2,180 |
| All RDU → IAH flights | 81.0% | 1.18% | -6 min | 7.3% | 2,712 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
Why UA2407 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 UA2407 on RDU → IAH. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA2407 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying UA2407 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.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into RDU just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 695 of 702 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 |
|---|---|
| UA2407 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
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 UA2407’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.
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 March 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves RDU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches IAH?
UA2407 pushes back an average of 13.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at IAH an average of 11.2 minutes late. The 2.5 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 17.0 minutes on the taxiways at RDU, 2.0 minutes shorter than a typical RDU departure in the same hour.
On arrival at IAH, UA2407 spends 16.5 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 5.8 minutes longer than a typical IAH arrival (10.7 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 IAH. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 12,332 departures from RDU scheduled in the clock hour UA2407 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at IAH (359,471 flights), not just UA2407’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves RDU
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA2407 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 12,332 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 179,935 across the whole day.
UA2407 is scheduled out of RDU at 5:00 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 67.3% of the time against 79.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from RDU 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 · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes UA2407 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IAH→SAN Houston to San Diego | June 25, 2026 – July 31, 2026 | 36 | — |
| IND→DEN Indianapolis to Denver | May 21, 2026 – June 19, 2026 | 9 | — |
| IAH→ABQ Houston to Albuquerque | March 31, 2024 – March 28, 2026 | 457 | 72.8% |
| IAH→TUL Houston to Tulsa | February 13, 2025 – March 4, 2025 | 17 | — |
| AUS→IAH Austin to Houston | January 8, 2025 – February 12, 2025 | 6 | — |
| IAH→LGA Houston to New York | January 9, 2024 – March 6, 2024 | 55 | — |
| TPA→EWR Tampa to Newark | October 29, 2023 – January 8, 2024 | 65 | — |
| MCO→ORD Orlando to Chicago | September 29, 2023 – October 28, 2023 | 30 | — |
| SFO→MCO San Francisco to Orlando | September 29, 2023 – October 28, 2023 | 30 | — |
| ORD→BNA Chicago to Nashville | October 1–27, 2023 | 12 | — |
| ORD→MSN Chicago to Madison | July 2, 2023 – September 28, 2023 | 53 | — |
| ORD→DTW Chicago to Detroit | August 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 25 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2407 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.
51 min late
against a median of 3 min early
Percentiles over 708 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 708 records of UA2407 operating RDU → IAH, 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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