OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Oklahoma City to Washington

1,158 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on OKC–DCA arrive on time 66% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate66%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay75 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled4.1%of scheduled flights

based on 122 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights61
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time62%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel6.6%
    Flights61

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline1%
  • Weather40%
  • Air traffic (NAS)24%
  • Late aircraft34%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Weather.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline40%
  • Weather60%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 5 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly OKC → DCA

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 70% to 81% on time.

  • Middays81% on time · p90 25 min · 985 flights
  • Afternoons77% on time · p90 40 min · 212 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 65 min · 880 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 78% on time.

  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 35 min · 221 flights
  • Tuesdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 315 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 40 min · 318 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 40 min · 316 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 317 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 45 min · 317 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 50 min · 313 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.