OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Francisco to Washington

2,419 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SFO–IAD arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 2,851 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlinesbest
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights2,591
  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time59%
    Median5 min
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights260

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline36%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft41%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→SFO airportSan Francisco→IAD airportWashington→Virgin America on this routecarrier detail→Virgin Americaairline profile→

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.