Flight profile · United Airlines
UA658
Minneapolis (MSP) to Chicago (ORD) · scheduled 5:15 PM – 6:55 PM
How UA658 performs
1,056 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
UA658 arrived on time 63.7% of the time, against 75.4% for all MSP → ORD flights, so this departure is 11.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 12.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,056 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA658 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How UA658 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 93% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
63.7% on time for this specific departure, against 76.3% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 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.
Where UA658 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA658 | 63.7% | 1.04% | 4 min | 14.1% | 1,056 |
| United Airlines on MSP → ORD | 76.3% | 1.21% | -3 min | 8.5% | 7,049 |
| All MSP → ORD flights | 75.4% | 1.59% | -5 min | 9.5% | 18,306 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA658 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 UA658 on MSP → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA658 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA658 pushed back an average of 70 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 MSP just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 1,029 of 1,046 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA658 | 23% | 73% | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
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 45 to 59 minutes. How often UA658’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA658 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ORD?
UA658 pushes back an average of 21.2 minutes late and arrives a further 3.5 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. Its 18.7 minutes on the taxiways at MSP is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at ORD, UA658 spends 26.5 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 8.7 minutes longer than a typical ORD arrival (17.8 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 ORD. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 7,567 departures from MSP scheduled in the clock hour UA658 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ORD (952,666 flights), not just UA658’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA658 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 7,567 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 369,781 across the whole day.
UA658 is scheduled out of MSP at 5:15 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 69.5% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MSP 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.
By day of week
Does UA658 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Wednesday the least, a gap of 15.5 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes UA658 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD→ONT Chicago to Ontario | March 29, 2026 – July 31, 2026 | 122 | 58.8% |
| MYR→ORD Myrtle Beach to Chicago | June 5–19, 2026 | 3 | — |
| MEM→IAH Memphis to Houston | May 2–16, 2026 | 3 | — |
| ORD→SAT Chicago to San Antonio | May 1, 2025 – December 17, 2025 | 128 | 74.4% |
| PHX→ORD Phoenix to Chicago | December 2–17, 2025 | 16 | — |
| ORD→LAS Chicago to Las Vegas | June 26, 2025 – July 31, 2025 | 35 | — |
| ORD→SFO Chicago to San Francisco | March 30, 2025 – April 30, 2025 | 19 | — |
| ORD→SJC Chicago to San Jose | March 7, 2024 – January 6, 2025 | 116 | 59.1% |
| ORD→IAH Chicago to Houston | October 27, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 36 | — |
| DEN→ORD Denver to Chicago | October 11, 2024 | 1 | — |
| ATL→IAH Atlanta to Houston | October 5, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LAX→SFO Los Angeles to San Francisco | January 9, 2024 – February 10, 2024 | 6 | — |
| ORD→ICT Chicago to Wichita | October 29, 2023 – November 27, 2023 | 25 | — |
| ORD→FAT Chicago to Fresno | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 62 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA658 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.
88 min late
against a median of 4 min late
UA658 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min late, but the worst tenth are 84 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 1,056 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1544 | Delta Air Lines | 81.4% | 9 min early | 690 |
| DL1533 | Delta Air Lines | 76.0% | 5 min early | 626 |
| UA658 this flight | United Airlines | 63.7% | 4 min late | 1,056 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA658 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,056 records of UA658 operating MSP → ORD, 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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