Dulles to Raleigh/Durham nonstop
Yes: United and Republic fly direct from Dulles (IAD) to Raleigh/Durham (RDU) about 3 times a day, year-round.
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Dulles to Raleigh/Durham in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 225 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: busiest in September 2025 (32 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (18 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 32 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 27 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 27 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 27 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 20 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 23 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 26 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 26 flights a week
- May 2026: 25 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 20 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 18 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 18 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 89%, Republic 11% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 760 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $275 one way, median $175. 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 $225 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 665 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 749 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 684 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 760 tickets
Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $225), 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 Dulles nonstop.
Other airports near Dulles with nonstops to Raleigh/Durham
Within about 100 miles of Washington Dulles International Airport
Also nonstop from Dulles (IAD)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 11 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 8 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 7 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 7 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 6 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 6 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 6 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 6 times a day
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