DCA to CHS flight delays
Washington, VA (DCA) Charleston, SC (CHS) · 444 miles
146 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
65.71%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.11%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
98 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
34 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.11% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. CHS to DCA arrives on time 8.6 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This is a late route. Flights from Washington to Charleston miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Every airline on DCA to CHS
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 88 | 71.43% | 4.55% | 107 min | — |
| American Airlines | 54 | 53.85% | 3.7% | 88 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 4 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
The return leg
CHS to DCA Charleston back to Washington 74.29% on time DOther routes from Washington
Common questions
Are flights from Washington to Charleston usually delayed?
65.71% of flights on the DCA to CHS route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are DCA to CHS flights cancelled?
4.11% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 41 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When DCA to CHS flights are late, how late are they?
About 98 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on DCA to CHS during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →