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Route Reliability

West Palm Beach → Washington

PBIIAD · 859 miles · Palm Beach International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
85%
Arrive within 15 minutes
1 min
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
333
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 85% of the time across 333 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

PBI–IAD flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 77% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

PBI–IAD flights arrived on time 94% of the time on Tuesdays and just 73% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Ticking up lately.

PBI–IAD flights arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon93%(45 flights)
  • Tue94%(46 flights)
  • Wed92%(47 flights)
  • Thu76%(46 flights)
  • Fri75%(48 flights)
  • Sat90%(48 flights)
  • Sun73%(48 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(130 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(167 flights)
  • 6–9 PM77%(31 flights)
On-time trend by month
95%
May

Oct 81% → May 95% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
October 202581%31
November 202579%28
December 202582%44
January 202680%35
February 202689%45
March 202690%60
April 202683%59
May 202695%20

Based on 333 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.