OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

DCAATL

Washington to Atlanta

547 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DCA–ATL arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled3.2%of scheduled flights

based on 6,560 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airways
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel5.2%
    Flights445
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights1,320
  • Delta Air Linesbest
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel2.5%
    Flights3,827
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time65%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel6.5%
    Flights968

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.