Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Baltimore → Richmond

BWI–RIC · 120 miles · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Richmond International Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
2.2%
Cancelled
729
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 81% of the time across 729 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BWI–RIC flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 65% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BWI–RIC flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays and just 65% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Slipping a little lately.

BWI–RIC flights arrived on time 78% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(102 flights)
  • Tue88%(103 flights)
  • Wed89%(103 flights)
  • Thu76%(103 flights)
  • Fri82%(102 flights)
  • Sat86%(101 flights)
  • Sun65%(99 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM92%(357 flights)
  • 12–3 PM—(6 flights)
  • 6–9 PM88%(68 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM65%(282 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 79% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202579%58
July 202571%58
August 202582%61
September 202592%60
October 202576%62
November 202587%60
December 202581%62
January 202684%57
February 202683%54
March 202676%59
April 202682%60
May 202676%62

Same trip, other airports

Keep nerding

Based on 729 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.