OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Washington to San Antonio

1,380 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DCA–SAT arrive on time 52% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate52%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay120 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.5%of scheduled flights

based on 275 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time52%
    Median10 min
    p90120 min
    Cancel1.5%
    Flights275

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft59%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline0%
  • Weather100%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 4 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

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.