RDU to IND flight delays
Raleigh/Durham, NC (RDU) Indianapolis, IN (IND) · 489 miles
116 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
83.49%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
6.03%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
54 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
10 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: 6.03% 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. IND to RDU arrives on time 11.1 points less 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.
Only Frontier Airlines 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 Raleigh/Durham to Indianapolis 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 July 2024 – July 2026, Frontier Airlines arrived on time most often on RDU to IND. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in June.
Every airline on RDU to IND
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines | 116 | 83.49% | 6.03% | 54 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Raleigh/Durham
Common questions
Are flights from Raleigh/Durham to Indianapolis usually delayed?
83.49% of flights on the RDU to IND 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 Raleigh/Durham to Indianapolis?
Only Frontier Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 116 flights and 83.49% arriving on time.
How often are RDU to IND flights cancelled?
6.03% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 60 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When RDU to IND flights are late, how late are they?
About 54 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 RDU to IND during July 2024 – July 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 →