Route
DCA → DEN
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Denver International Airport
1,476 miles
Return route DEN → DCA →
How punctual is this route?
- On-time arrivals
- 78.2%
- Less than 15 minutes late
- Cancelled
- 0.9%
- Of scheduled flights
- Average delay when late
- 87 min
- Flights arriving 15+ minutes late
- Flights tracked
- 1,347
- Scheduled flights in the period
What caused the delays
- Air traffic control & airport 41%
- Late-arriving aircraft 27%
- Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning) 24%
- Extreme weather 8%
- Security 0%
Share of delay minutes airlines attributed to each cause (BTS).
Sep 2025
Aug 2026
Show as table
| Month | On time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 76.4% | 110 |
| October 2025 | 87.7% | 115 |
| November 2025 | 79.5% | 112 |
| December 2025 | 73.5% | 114 |
| January 2026 | 82.0% | 116 |
| February 2026 | 78.8% | 104 |
| March 2026 | 79.6% | 115 |
| April 2026 | 82.4% | 109 |
| May 2026 | 81.7% | 116 |
| June 2026 | 72.7% | 110 |
| July 2026 | 76.2% | 110 |
| August 2026 | 67.6% | 116 |
Source: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time data, September 2025 – August 2026. Covers flights operated by reporting U.S. carriers. About our data
Airlines on this route
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg. delay when late |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines | 983 | 78.1% | 1.0% | 85 min |
| United Airlines | 364 | 78.4% | 0.5% | 91 min |
Delay odds by flight
How often each flight number arrived 15 or more minutes late over the last year.
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