Washington to Raleigh/Durham nonstop
Yes: American and Republic fly direct from Washington (DCA) to Raleigh/Durham (RDU) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Washington to Raleigh/Durham in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 227 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 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, a steady 37 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 40 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 40 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 37 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 36 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 34 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 38 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 38 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 39 flights a week
- May 2026: 37 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 36 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 33 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 34 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- PSA 45% (regional operator), Envoy 33% (regional operator), Republic 21% (regional operator), American 1% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,429 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $275 one way, median $150. 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 $175 one way, middle half $125 to $250, 2,268 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 2,523 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 2,166 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 2,429 tickets
Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $175), 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? Raleigh/Durham to Washington nonstop.
Other airports near Washington with nonstops to Raleigh/Durham
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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