Carrier route record
AADCA→JAX
American Airlines · Washington to Jacksonville
- Flights
- 926
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DCA to JAX sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 926 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DCA to JAX runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 46 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 905 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.16%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.0%
Every carrier on DCA to JAX, 1,435 flights
These figures cover 926 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 JAX
American flew 926 of the 1,435 flights on DCA to JAX, most of the route. Its 72.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 85.2% to PSA at 68.3%. 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 | 154 | 85.2% | 53 min | 1.95% | A |
| American Airlines (this page) | 926 | 72.7% | 71 min | 2.16% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 355 | 68.3% | 80 min | 6.76% | 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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am153 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm187 flights73.9%
- 2pm–5pm345 flights68.5%
- 5pm–8pm23 flights—
- 8pm–5am216 flights67.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 67.3% for the overnight window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 345 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DCA to JAX through the year
April is the best month on the calendar at 89.2% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. October was the busiest month here, with 118 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.7%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DCA to JAX runs when it is late
American on DCA to JAX often beats the schedule: 237 of 905 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 247 late arrivals split 72 under half an hour, 84 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 91 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early237 flights26.2%
- Within 15 min421 flights46.5%
- 15–29 min late72 flights8.0%
- 30–59 min late84 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late57 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late34 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 905 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
37 of 246 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 38 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DCA to JAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 14 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 14 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 10 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 September 2025 | 9 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 May 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 57 to one. The split is drawn from 17,527 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 91.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.11%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.1% 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.
The 634 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 73.8% on time across 928 flights, within about 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. 926 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 JAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 926 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 72.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 905 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to JAX, every carrier
- American on JAX to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to JAX85.2%
- PSA Airlines on DCA to JAX68.3%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Jacksonville International (JAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.