OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Jacksonville to Washington

634 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on JAX–DCA arrive on time 70% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate70%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.7%of scheduled flights

based on 1,348 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airwaysbest
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel6.0%
    Flights217
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time62%
    Medianon time
    p90100 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights157
  • American Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel1.7%
    Flights974

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft50%
  • 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 JAX → DCA

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 — 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 1,075 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,532 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 80 min · 843 flights
  • Evenings61% on time · p90 85 min · 1,017 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 80% on time.

  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 524 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 50 min · 660 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 663 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 653 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 65 min · 651 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 55 min · 665 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 55 min · 660 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.