OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Washington to Tulsa

1,049 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.3%of scheduled flights

based on 183 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
    p9060 min
    Cancel3.3%
    Flights183

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline37%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft43%
  • Security0%

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 → TUL

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

Best time of day

Afternoons are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 81% on time.

  • Afternoons81% on time · p90 35 min · 355 flights
  • Middays73% on time · p90 45 min · 556 flights
  • Overnights70% on time · p90 45 min · 138 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 66% to 84% on time.

  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays78% on time · p90 35 min · 156 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 45 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 45 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 35 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 45 min · 144 flights · limited
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 75 min · 155 flights · limited
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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.