Carrier route record
YXBDL→IAD
Republic Airways · Hartford to Washington
- Flights
- 200
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on BDL to IAD sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 200 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Republic on BDL to IAD runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 188 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
85.4%
Every carrier on BDL to IAD, 1,092 flights
These figures cover 200 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on BDL to IAD
Republic flew 200 of the 1,092 flights on BDL to IAD, about 18% of it. Its 73.4% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 87.9% to Republic at 73.4%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 892 | 87.9% | 68 min | 1.57% | A |
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 200 | 73.4% | 72 min | 6.00% | C− |
Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am7 flights—
- 8am–11am53 flights80.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm83 flights57.7%
- 5pm–8pm57 flights86.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 86.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 29 points.
Across the year
Republic on BDL to IAD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202564 flights62.7%
- Oct–Dec 202531 flights64.5%
- Jan–Mar 202680 flights82.7%
- Apr–Jun 202625 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.4% on time across 200 flights.
Republic on BDL to IAD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 62.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 67 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 3,606 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%National Airspace System
- 8%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,606 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,606 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,399 minutes out of 3,606, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 6.00%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 325 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.9% on time across 200 flights, 13 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 200 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking Republic on BDL to IAD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 188 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.