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Route Reliability

Cedar Rapids → Washington

CID–DCA · 801 miles · The Eastern Iowa Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
6.6%
Cancelled
364
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

American Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 76% of the time across 364 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

CID–DCA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 65% between 3–6 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

CID–DCA flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Tuesdays and just 63% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 6.6% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Trending in the right direction.

CID–DCA flights arrived on time 87% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 64% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(50 flights)
  • Tue85%(47 flights)
  • Wed79%(48 flights)
  • Thu74%(46 flights)
  • Fri63%(48 flights)
  • Sat81%(47 flights)
  • Sun77%(47 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM100%(44 flights)
  • 12–3 PM78%(176 flights)
  • 3–6 PM65%(113 flights)
On-time trend by month
97%
May

Jun 59% → May 97% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202559%29
July 202592%25
August 202580%30
September 202575%28
October 202587%31
November 202567%24
December 202559%29
January 202665%26
February 202667%27
March 202668%25
April 202697%29
May 202697%30

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Based on 364 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.