Carrier route record
AADCA→BTV
American Airlines · Washington to Burlington
- Flights
- 174
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 16%
- 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 BTV sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 174 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DCA to BTV runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 81 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 172 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
66.8%
Every carrier on DCA to BTV, 1,119 flights
These figures cover 174 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DCA to BTV
American flew 174 of the 1,119 flights on DCA to BTV, about 16% of it. Its 69.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 66.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 73.3% to PSA at 65.5%. 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 | 109 | 73.3% | 73 min | 6.42% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 174 | 69.2% | 57 min | 1.15% | C |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 4 | 66.7% | 76 min | 25.00% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 832 | 65.5% | 86 min | 6.13% | C− |
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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm33 flights75.8%
- 2pm–5pm71 flights71.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am70 flights64.3%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 64.3% on time, against 75.8% for the 11am–2pm 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 71 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DCA to BTV through the year
- Jul–Sep 202554 flights72.2%
- Oct–Dec 20259 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202671 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 202636 flights69.4%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 69.2% on time across 174 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on DCA to BTV held fairly steady: 72.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 66.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 69.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DCA to BTV runs when it is late
American on DCA to BTV often beats the schedule: 56 of 172 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early56 flights32.6%
- Within 15 min63 flights36.6%
- 15–29 min late14 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late23 flights13.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights6.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 172 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 47 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 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 BTV.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DCA to BTV
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 3 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 February 2026 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 September 2025 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 3,008 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,008 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 to one. The split is drawn from 3,008 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 437 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 69.8% on time across 174 flights, within half a point 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. 174 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. 174 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 69.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 172 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to BTV, every carrier
- American on BTV to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to BTV73.3%
- PSA Airlines on DCA to BTV65.5%
- 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.