UA2652

UA2652 arrived on time 68.6% of the time, against 74.5% for all ORD → CLE flights, so this departure is 5.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.6 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 804 operations, February 2024 – July 2026 · If UA2652 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

UA2652 has cancelled 0.87% of its scheduled departures (7 of 804), against 2.08% for all ORD → CLE flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 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 UA2652 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2652 on ORD → CLE. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA2652 pushed back an average of 52 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into ORD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 732 of 798 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

On arrival at CLE, UA2652 spends 5.9 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 2.6 minutes shorter than a typical CLE arrival (8.5 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 CLE. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 81,342 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour UA2652 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at CLE (127,091 flights), not just UA2652’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2652 is scheduled out of ORD at 6:10 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 67.0% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.5 points worse 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 · February 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2652 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. UA2652 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.

• UA1673 CLE→ORD Return trip, CLE to ORD, departs 6:00 PM, on time 60.6%
• UA609 CLE→ORD Return trip, CLE to ORD, departs 11:00 AM, on time 90.0%
• UA679 CLE→LAX United Airlines flight out of CLE, CLE to LAX, departs 3:42 PM, on time 89.6%