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Route Reliability

Dallas → Washington

DAL–DCA · 1,184 miles · Dallas Love Field to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

65
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
69%
Arrive within 15 minutes
16 min
Average arrival delay
1.6%
Cancelled
1,735
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 69% of the time across 1,735 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DAL–DCA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 51% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

DAL–DCA flights arrived on time 81% of the time on Saturdays and just 62% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–DCA flights arrived on time 61% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 75% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon71%(258 flights)
  • Tue76%(257 flights)
  • Wed66%(255 flights)
  • Thu64%(253 flights)
  • Fri62%(250 flights)
  • Sat81%(173 flights)
  • Sun65%(251 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM91%(359 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM82%(360 flights)
  • 12–3 PM64%(321 flights)
  • 3–6 PM52%(352 flights)
  • 6–9 PM51%(305 flights)
On-time trend by month
63%
May

Jun 59% → May 63% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202559%144
July 202564%143
August 202578%144
September 202578%142
October 202566%145
November 202575%135
December 202579%149
January 202679%135
February 202666%129
March 202655%145
April 202664%143
May 202663%143

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Based on 1,735 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.