United Airlines in February 2024

83.3%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In February 2024, United Airlines (UA) reported 56,834 scheduled domestic flights. 83.3% arrived on time, 0.6% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 83.4% on time and 0.6% cancelled that month, so the carrier was level with the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 28%.

On time 83.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.9%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by United Airlines in February 2024.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	UA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Feb 2024
Arrived on time	83.3%	—	78.2%	83.4%
Departed on time	84.3%	—	80.6%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.0%	0.6%
Average arrival delay	0.6 min	—	6.3 min	0.6 min
Scheduled flights a day	1,895	—	2,262	17,307
Scheduled flights	56,834	—	825,693	519,221

112 airports and 777 routes had UA flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	7,500	73.6%	12.4 min	0.7%
ORD Chicago	6,498	87.0%	-4.0 min	0.2%
EWR Newark	5,566	85.1%	-7.1 min	0.8%
IAH Houston	5,110	84.9%	0.5 min	0.2%
SFO San Francisco	3,450	77.5%	6.3 min	1.0%
IAD Washington	2,386	87.1%	-3.7 min	0.3%
LAX Los Angeles	1,864	82.9%	0.2 min	0.6%
MCO Orlando	1,199	83.8%	1.5 min	0.4%
LAS Las Vegas	1,168	82.3%	1.2 min	0.9%
BOS Boston	816	90.1%	-11.3 min	1.5%
PHX Phoenix	771	86.6%	0.5 min	0.6%
TPA Tampa	763	87.8%	-3.0 min	0.5%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	757	87.6%	-3.4 min	0.5%
SAN San Diego	712	82.7%	-0.2 min	0.4%
AUS Austin	695	86.5%	-0.1 min	0.4%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of UA flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.1%	35.9%	178,123
Late-arriving aircraft	37.1%	36.9%	234,747
National Aviation System	29.5%	21.7%	186,916
Extreme weather	5.2%	5.3%	32,912
Security	0.0%	0.3%	142

632,840 delay minutes on 9,043 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of United Airlines flights were on time in February 2024?

83.3% of 56,834 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 83.4% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for February 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for United Airlines · methodology · corrections.