IND to DCA flight delays
Indianapolis, IN (IND) Washington, VA (DCA) · 500 miles
172 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
82.21%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
5.23%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
70 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
13 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: 5.23% 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 shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 70 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
Only Republic Airways flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Flights from Indianapolis to Washington keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Republic Airways arrived on time most often on IND to DCA.
Every airline on IND to DCA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 140 | 84.21% | 5% | 64 min | C |
| PSA Airlines | 32 | 73.33% | 6.25% | 88 min | — |
The return leg
DCA to IND Washington back to Indianapolis 79.27% on time COther routes from Indianapolis
Common questions
Are flights from Indianapolis to Washington usually delayed?
82.21% of flights on the IND to DCA route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Indianapolis to Washington?
Only Republic Airways appears in the published record on this route, with 140 flights and 84.21% arriving on time.
How often are IND to DCA flights cancelled?
5.23% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 52 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When IND to DCA flights are late, how late are they?
About 70 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 IND to DCA 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 →