Carrier route record
YXDCA→BTV
Republic Airways · Washington to Burlington
- Flights
- 109
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on DCA to BTV 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 109 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Republic on DCA to BTV runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 40 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 101 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.42%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
66.8%
Every carrier on DCA to BTV, 1,119 flights
These figures cover 109 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.9% 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 DCA to BTV
Republic flew 109 of the 1,119 flights on DCA to BTV, about 10% of it. Its 73.3% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 66.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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 Airways (this page)thin sample | 109 | 73.3% | 73 min | 6.42% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin 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 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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am5 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm57 flights63.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am47 flights85.7%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 85.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 23 points.
Across the year
Republic on DCA to BTV through the year
- Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights82.1%
- Jul–Sep 202632 flights64.5%
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 73.3% on time across 109 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on DCA to BTV logged 15 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 62 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 32 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 73.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on DCA to BTV runs when it is late
Republic on DCA to BTV often beats the schedule: 37 of 101 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When Republic on DCA to BTV is late it tends to be very late: 14 of its 27 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 4 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early37 flights36.6%
- Within 15 min37 flights36.6%
- 15–29 min late7 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late6 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights9.9%
- 2+ hours late4 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 101 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 101 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on DCA to BTV
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 February 2026, 4 hours 5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 February 2026 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 March 2026 | 1 hour 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 1,961 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,961 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 to one. The split is drawn from 1,961 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.42%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
13.9% 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.0% on time across 109 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 109 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 DCA to BTV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.42% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 101 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to BTV, every carrier
- Republic on BTV to DCA, the return leg
- American Airlines on DCA to BTV69.2%
- PSA Airlines on DCA to BTV65.5%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.