Carrier route record
AADCA→BGR
American Airlines · Washington to Bangor
- 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 DCA to BGR lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 162 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on DCA to BGR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 158 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.4%
Every carrier on DCA to BGR, 1,122 flights
These figures cover 162 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DCA to BGR
American flew 162 of the 1,122 flights on DCA to BGR, about 14% of it. Its 77.2% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 77.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 162 | 77.2% | 63 min | 2.47% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 94 | 72.0% | 47 min | 1.06% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 861 | 65.1% | 80 min | 8.71% | C− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 75 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 162 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am61 flights80.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm61 flights75.4%
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am36 flights75.8%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 80.0% on time for the 8am–11am window against 75.4% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 61 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DCA to BGR through the year
- Jul–Sep 202587 flights70.6%
- Oct–Dec 202563 flights88.7%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Jul–Sep 20268 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. 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 77.2% on time across 162 flights.
Split by quarter, American on DCA to BGR 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 77.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DCA to BGR runs when it is late
American on DCA to BGR often beats the schedule: 47 of 158 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early47 flights29.7%
- Within 15 min75 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late14 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late14 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 158 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 8 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 BGR.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DCA to BGR
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 September 2025, 11 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in September 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2025 | 11 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 September 2025 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 October 2025 | 1 hour 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 September 2025 | 1 hour 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 2,250 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 42%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,250 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 2,250 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 939 of the 2,250 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.1% 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 74.8% 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
Booking American on DCA to BGR
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 77.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 158 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to BGR, every carrier
- American on BGR to DCA, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DCA to BGR65.1%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.