Phoenix to Washington nonstop
Yes: United and Southwest fly direct from Phoenix (PHX) to Washington (IAD) about 7 times a week, year-round.
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Phoenix to Washington in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,956 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 35 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 March 2026 (26 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 20 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 22 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 25 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 24 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 22 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 20 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 26 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 21 flights a week
- May 2026: 22 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 8 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 7 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 75%, Southwest 25% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,679 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $175 and $375 one way, median $250. 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 $175 to $325, 1,912 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 2,968 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $375, 2,538 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $375, 2,679 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $225 to $250 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Washington to Phoenix nonstop.
Also nonstop from Phoenix (PHX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 22 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 19 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 18 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 17 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 15 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 15 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 14 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 13 times a day
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