Carrier route record
YXBDL→IAD
Republic Airways · Hartford to Washington
- Flights
- 141
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on BDL to IAD lands a B−, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 141 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on BDL to IAD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 134 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.4%
Every carrier on BDL to IAD, 1,082 flights
These figures cover 141 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on BDL to IAD
Republic flew 141 of the 1,082 flights on BDL to IAD, about 13% of it. Its 78.4% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 85.3% to Republic at 78.4%.
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 | 941 | 85.3% | 82 min | 1.49% | A |
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 141 | 78.4% | 75 min | 4.96% | B− |
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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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am7 flights—
- 8am–11am36 flights88.2%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm41 flights55.0%
- 5pm–8pm57 flights86.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.2% of the time, against 55.0% for the afternoon window. That is 33 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 57 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on BDL to IAD through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- 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 78.4% on time across 141 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on BDL to IAD logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 31 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 80 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 25 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 78.4% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on BDL to IAD runs when it is late
Republic on BDL to IAD often beats the schedule: 54 of 134 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights40.3%
- Within 15 min51 flights38.1%
- 15–29 min late10 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late8 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 134 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 21 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 10 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at IAD.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on BDL to IAD
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 June 2026, 7 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2026 | 7 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 March 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 December 2025 | 3 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 March 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 2,167 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 9%Carrier
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,167 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 2,167 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.96%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
8.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.6% on time across 141 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 141 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 4.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 134 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.