UA2468

UA2468 arrived on time 84.4% of the time, against 80.5% for all EWR → MSY flights, so this departure is 3.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.6 points better.

UA2468’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 1:00 PM earlier on, and around 12:30 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 · 890 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2468 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2468 on EWR → MSY. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying UA2468 came in 15 or more minutes late on 9% 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 EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 803 of 878 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 July 2023 – July 2026

UA2468 pushes back an average of 9.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at MSY an average of 0.0 minutes early. The 9.5 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. Its 19.8 minutes on the taxiways at EWR is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at MSY, UA2468 spends 4.9 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 about what any arrival at MSY 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 MSY. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 20,226 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA2468 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MSY (154,323 flights), not just UA2468’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2468 is scheduled out of EWR at 1:00 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 80.0% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour UA2468 leaves in is an ordinary one for EWR and explains nothing about its record either way.

The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 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 UA2468 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

• UA2235 MSY→EWR Return trip, MSY to EWR, departs 7:54 PM, on time 73.9%
• UA1559 SNA→EWR United Airlines flight into EWR, SNA to EWR, departs 12:45 PM, on time 62.1%
• UA2120 EWR→DEN United Airlines flight out of EWR, EWR to DEN, departs 2:10 PM, on time 76.6%