Flights Lansing → Washington
LAN → DCA
Route overview
The flight route from Lansing to Washington operates with a Boeing 737-700 aircraft and has been running since the opening of its origin airport in 1928. With an on-time performance rate of 64%, flights experience an average delay of 44.2 minutes, serving one of the busiest airports in the United States, which handles over 25 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Lansing (LAN) → Washington (DCA) route is operated by Sun Country Airlines. Across 96 flights monitored in recent months, 64% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 41 minutes. The cancellation rate is 8.33%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Washington the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Lansing the average ATFM delay is 3.2 minutes.
Heading to Washington: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Lansing (LAN) to Washington (DCA) heads south-east for about 770 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 23m.
Departures from Lansing on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 78% of LAN-DCA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Lansing the average ATFM delay is 3.2 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Washington it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 96 tracked LAN-DCA flights, 64% left on time with an average delay of 41 min and a 8.3% cancellation rate.
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Frequently asked questions about LAN-DCA
On the Lansing (LAN) -> Washington (DCA) route, on-time performance is 64% with an average delay of 41 minutes, based on 96 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Lansing-Washington is 8.33% across 96 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Sun Country Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
