OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Washington to Asheville

384 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DCA–AVL arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled4.8%of scheduled flights

based on 477 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel4.8%
    Flights477

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)20%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DCA → AVL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 62% to 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 20 min · 403 flights
  • Middays80% on time · p90 30 min · 628 flights
  • Evenings67% on time · p90 70 min · 383 flights
  • Afternoons62% on time · p90 75 min · 186 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 78% on time.

  • Sundays78% on time · p90 35 min · 227 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 35 min · 234 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 231 flights
  • Fridays76% on time · p90 45 min · 228 flights
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 222 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 55 min · 231 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 55 min · 227 flights
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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.