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United Airlines ORD to IAH on-time performance

United Airlines nonstop flights from Chicago to Houston · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
80%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.7%
29 flights
Avg arrival delay
14 min
68 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 8
route average 76% on time

Key facts

  • United Airlines flights on ORD to IAH arrived on time 80% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.7% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 8 airlines on this route, which averaged 76% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (44%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 65.1% on time, 0.9% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 75.7% on time, 1.2% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 85.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 79.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 79.6% on time, 1.6% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 80.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 83.0% on time, 0.9% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 91.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 76.7% on time, 1.8% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 76.0% on time, 1.5% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 73.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 82.4% on time, 1.6% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft44%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion26%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)23%
  • Extreme weather7%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on ORD to IAH

Full ORD to IAH comparison →
United Airlines on-time record across all routes →

4,040 United Airlines flights tracked on this route; 29 cancelled, 9 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.