UA2414

UA2414 arrived on time 86.2% of the time, against 75.3% for all ORD → BNA flights, so this departure is 10.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.6 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 839 operations, October 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2414 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Every day of the week performs about the same on this flight, steadier than 98% of 1,710 comparable flight numbers.

89.2% on time on the best day (Tuesday) against 86.0% on the worst (Wednesday).

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2414 on ORD → BNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying UA2414 came in 15 or more minutes late on 10% 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, 734 of 835 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 October 2023 – July 2026

UA2414 pushes back an average of 6.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at BNA an average of 0.2 minutes early. The 6.2 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 26.9 minutes on the taxiways at ORD, 2.1 minutes longer than a typical ORD departure in the same hour.

On arrival at BNA, UA2414 spends 7.6 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 about what any arrival at BNA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

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 BNA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 72,441 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour UA2414 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BNA (319,633 flights), not just UA2414’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2414 is scheduled out of ORD at 10:50 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 79.1% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.6 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 · October 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 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 UA2414 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

• UA1616 BNA→ORD Return trip, BNA to ORD, departs 12:55 PM, on time 85.1%
• UA2040 BOS→ORD United Airlines flight into ORD, BOS to ORD, departs 4:27 PM, on time 58.0%
• UA218 HNL→ORD United Airlines flight into ORD, HNL to ORD, departs 5:15 PM, on time 91.4%