Carrier route record
YXJAX→DCA
Republic Airways · Jacksonville to Washington
- Flights
- 154
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on JAX to DCA lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 154 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on JAX 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
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights
Avg delay
133 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.1%
Every carrier on JAX to DCA, 1,437 flights
These figures cover 154 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% 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 JAX to DCA
Republic flew 154 of the 1,437 flights on JAX to DCA, about 11% of it. Its 78.7% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.7% to PSA at 68.7%. One 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 | 154 | 78.7% | 133 min | 2.60% | B |
| American Airlines | 928 | 73.8% | 69 min | 2.16% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 355 | 68.7% | 134 min | 4.51% | 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am48 flights91.5%
- 11am–2pm37 flights94.4%
- 2pm–5pm69 flights61.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 94.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 61.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 69 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on JAX to DCA through the year
- Jul–Sep 20254 flights—
- Oct–Dec 20254 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202642 flights92.5%
- Apr–Jun 202674 flights80.8%
- Jul–Sep 202630 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 78.7% on time across 154 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on JAX to DCA logged 4 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 4 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 42 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 74 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 30 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 78.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on JAX to DCA runs when it is late
Republic on JAX to DCA often beats the schedule: 49 of 150 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When Republic on JAX to DCA is late it tends to be very late: 20 of its 32 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 8 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early49 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min69 flights46.0%
- 15–29 min late6 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late6 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late8 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 150 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 3 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on JAX to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 July 2026, 16 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2026 | 16 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 9 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 June 2026 | 7 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 June 2026 | 5 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,252 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,597 of the 4,252 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,252 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.60%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
13.3% 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.
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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.2% on time across 154 flights, 7 points above 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 154 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 JAX to DCA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 154 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 78.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 150 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JAX to DCA, every carrier
- Republic on DCA to JAX, the return leg
- American Airlines on JAX to DCA73.8%
- PSA Airlines on JAX to DCA68.7%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Jacksonville International (JAX) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.