Flights Omaha → Washington
OMA → DCA
Route overview
This flight route operates from Omaha to Washington with an Embraer 170 aircraft and has a total of 165 flights, maintaining a punctuality rate of 76%. The destination airport, which opened in 1938, serves 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 Omaha (OMA) → Washington (DCA) route is operated by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines. Across 217 flights monitored in recent months, 78% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 11 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.23%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 12.8/100 (low), 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 Omaha the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Washington: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Omaha (OMA) to Washington (DCA) heads east for about 1,624 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 27m.
Departures from Omaha on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 99% of OMA-DCA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Omaha the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Washington it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 217 tracked OMA-DCA flights, 78% left on time with an average delay of 11 min and a 3.2% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about OMA-DCA
On the Omaha (OMA) -> Washington (DCA) route, on-time performance is 78% with an average delay of 11 minutes, based on 217 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Omaha-Washington is 3.23% across 217 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines.
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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.
