Washington to Fort Lauderdale nonstop
Yes: JetBlue, American and Southwest fly direct from Washington (DCA) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 6 times a day, year-round.
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Washington to Fort Lauderdale in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 899 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 20 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in December 2025 (52 flights a week), quietest in September 2025 (34 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 34 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 42 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 46 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 52 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 47 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 46 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 47 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 47 flights a week
- May 2026: 44 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 39 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 38 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 39 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- JetBlue 59%, American 24%, Southwest 16% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 5,583 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $200 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $175, 6,182 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 6,335 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 5,768 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 5,583 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Fort Lauderdale to Washington nonstop.
Other airports near Washington with nonstops to Fort Lauderdale
Within about 100 miles of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Also nonstop from Washington (DCA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Boston (BOS) about 23 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 20 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 18 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 13 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 12 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 11 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 9 times a day
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