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Route Reliability

Washington → BTR

DCA–BTR · 985 miles · Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to BTR Airport

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WanderNerd Reliability Score
73%
Arrive within 15 minutes
16 min
Average arrival delay
10.4%
Cancelled
308
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines73% on time · 307 flights
  • United Airlines100% on time · 1 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Thursdays have been rough.

DCA–BTR flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Tuesdays and just 57% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 10.4% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Trending in the right direction.

DCA–BTR flights arrived on time 80% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 65% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon84%(45 flights)
  • Tue87%(46 flights)
  • Wed69%(45 flights)
  • Thu57%(42 flights)
  • Fri62%(39 flights)
  • Sat82%(11 flights)
  • Sun72%(47 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM—(1 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(1 flights)
  • 6–9 PM73%(273 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 57% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202557%21
July 202553%17
August 202579%24
September 202592%26
October 202573%26
November 202561%23
December 202547%15
January 202678%23
February 202671%24
March 202680%20
April 202686%29
May 202674%27

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Based on 308 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.