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DCA vs AGS - 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
DCA

Washington, DC

Washington, Virginia

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Airport B
AGS

Augusta, GA

Augusta, Georgia

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric DCA AGS
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 80.8% 84.0%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 79.6 min 88.6 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.2% 16.0%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.52% 0.98%
Total Flights 1,425,060 41,579
Delayed Flights 274,313 6,637
Cancelled Flights 21,697 406
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

DCA - Washington, DC

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

AGS - Augusta, GA

Carrier 42.9%
Late Aircraft 31.8%
NAS 13.2%
Weather 12.1%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

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%

Top routes from AGS

Route Flights On-Time
AGS → ATL
Atlanta
11,470 87.5%
ATL → AGS
Augusta
11,442 87.5%
CLT → AGS
Augusta
4,661 82.4%
AGS → CLT
Charlotte
4,659 78.9%
AGS → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
2,157 79%
DFW → AGS
Augusta
2,127 78.9%

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.