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CID vs DCA - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
CID

Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, IA

Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Iowa

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Airport B
DCA

Washington, DC

Washington, Virginia

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric CID DCA
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.2% 80.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 87.7 min 79.6 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 17.8% 19.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.35% 1.52%
Total Flights 91,140 1,425,060
Delayed Flights 16,250 274,313
Cancelled Flights 1,229 21,697
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

CID - Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, IA

Carrier 37.1%
Late Aircraft 36.7%
NAS 16.8%
Weather 9.3%
Security 0.1%

DCA - Washington, DC

Late Aircraft 46.4%
Carrier 28.7%
NAS 19.7%
Weather 5.0%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from CID

Route Flights On-Time
ORD → CID
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City
10,759 78.5%
CID → ORD
Chicago
10,754 80.8%
CID → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
6,354 79.4%
DFW → CID
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City
6,354 75.6%
CID → DEN
Denver
6,265 81.8%
DEN → CID
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City
6,265 79.5%

Top routes from DCA

Route Flights On-Time
BOS → DCA
Washington
49,205 81.6%
DCA → BOS
Boston
49,133 80.5%
ATL → DCA
Washington
35,757 79.9%
DCA → ATL
Atlanta
35,728 83.9%
ORD → DCA
Washington
33,643 79%
DCA → ORD
Chicago
33,634 83.8%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.