Carrier route record
AABGR→DCA
American Airlines · Bangor to Washington
- Flights
- 162
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on BGR to DCA sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 162 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on BGR to DCA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 159 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on BGR to DCA, 1,123 flights
These figures cover 162 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on BGR to DCA
American flew 162 of the 1,123 flights on BGR to DCA, about 14% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 82.8% to Envoy at 40.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 95 | 82.8% | 58 min | 2.11% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 162 | 74.8% | 60 min | 1.85% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 861 | 66.8% | 132 min | 7.78% | C− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 72 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am40 flights89.5%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm61 flights76.7%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm61 flights63.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.9% on time, against 89.5% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 61 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on BGR to DCA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202587 flights70.9%
- Oct–Dec 202563 flights80.6%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Jul–Sep 20268 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 74.8% on time across 162 flights.
Split by quarter, American on BGR to DCA logged 87 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 63 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 4 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 8 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 74.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on BGR to DCA runs when it is late
The 40 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early22 flights13.8%
- Within 15 min97 flights61.0%
- 15–29 min late16 flights10.1%
- 30–59 min late13 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late5 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 159 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 12 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 DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for American on BGR to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 September 2025, 4 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Five of the five worst days fell in September 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 September 2025 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 3 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 September 2025 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 September 2025 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 2,394 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 6%Carrier
- 4%Security
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,394 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 2,394 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.85% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 590 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 77.2% on time across 162 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 162 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 162 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 159 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BGR to DCA, every carrier
- American on DCA to BGR, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on BGR to DCA66.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.