UA2670

UA2670 arrived on time 74.8% of the time, against 71.3% for all DFW → IAH flights, so this departure is 3.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.2 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 941 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2670 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

UA2670 has cancelled 1.70% of its scheduled departures (16 of 941), against 2.80% for all DFW → IAH 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 UA2670 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2670 on DFW → IAH. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

UA2670 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.3 hours on the ground at DFW, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA2670 pushed back an average of 13 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 DFW just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 887 of 925 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

UA2670 pushes back an average of 7.2 minutes late and arrives a further 3.7 minutes behind that. This departure loses ground between the two gates rather than recovering it, so a late pushback here tends to get worse on the way, not better. It spends 25.2 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 5.3 minutes longer than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.

On arrival at IAH, UA2670 spends 10.8 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 IAH 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 IAH. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 62,158 departures from DFW scheduled in the clock hour UA2670 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 UA2670’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2670 is scheduled out of DFW at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 85.2% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.1 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DFW 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 UA2670 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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA2670 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.

• AA2209 DFW→IAH American Airlines on the same route, departs 9:00 PM, on time 56.8%
• UA1609 DFW→IAH United Airlines on the same route, departs 5:25 PM, on time 61.6%
• UA1949 IAH→DFW Return trip, IAH to DFW, departs 8:25 PM, on time 69.1%