OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Washington to Cincinnati

388 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on IAD–CVG arrive on time 82% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate82%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 485 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airways
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights485

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline53%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft32%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly IAD → CVG

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 634 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 40 min · 78 flights · limited
  • Evenings76% on time · p90 40 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Overnights75% on time · p90 70 min · 87 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 92% on time.

  • Wednesdays92% on time · p90 10 min · 128 flights · limited
  • Thursdays88% on time · p90 20 min · 136 flights · limited
  • Mondays88% on time · p90 15 min · 145 flights · limited
  • Saturdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 118 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 137 flights · limited
  • Fridays84% on time · p90 50 min · 150 flights · limited
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 40 min · 149 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.