Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
DCA
Airport information
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Washington, United StatesIATA: DCAICAO: KDCA
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Departures
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Live radar
Live radar around the airport
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The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
3 runways · Longest runway: 7,169 ft
- 01/197,169 ft · heading 176/356 degrees
- 15/335,204 ft · heading 143/323 degrees
- 04/225,000 ft · heading 26/206 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
BOSUnited States
Boston
- Distance
- 398 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 5m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +4
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Envoy Air · JetBlue · Republic Airways · Wingo
ORDUnited States
Chicago
- Distance
- 611 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 39m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Envoy Air · +4
American Airlines · Envoy Air · PSA Airlines · Republic Airways · SkyWest Airlines · United Airlines
ATLUnited States
Atlanta
- Distance
- 547 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 23m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +4
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Envoy Air · PSA Airlines · Republic Airways · Southwest Airlines
LGAUnited States
New York
- Distance
- 214 mi
- Estimated duration
- 44m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +5
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · Lincoln Airlines · Republic Airways · Southwest Airlines · Wingo
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- DullesWashington Dulles International AirportIAD23 mi171 destinations
- BaltimoreBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportBWI30 mi104 destinations
- CharlottesvilleCharlottesville Albemarle AirportCHO91 mi15 destinations
- HarrisburgHarrisburg International AirportMDT94 mi36 destinations
- RichmondRichmond International AirportRIC94 mi64 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
- City and country
- Washington, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- DCA / KDCA
- Time zone
- America/New_York
- Terminal
- 1, 2, A, B
- Category
- Major airport
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
DCA Airport: live flight status at Ronald Reagan Washington National
Day after day, our receivers pick up a busy flow of aircraft around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a large airport serving Washington, United States, listed under the IATA code DCA and the ICAO code KDCA. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft around DCA Airport at this moment, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above it carry the current flight status for each flight; the sections below add the picture from our own tracking data: how much traffic we measure on an average day, when that traffic peaks, which airlines we record most often at Reagan National, and which nearby airports have status pages of their own on this site.
What our own tracking data shows
The figures in this section come from our own reception measurement, collected over the past 30 days, not from official airport statistics. Over that period, the measurement averaged 85.7 aircraft observations per day near the airport. In our database, DCA is classed as a large airport, and its traffic level is marked as busy, which is what that daily average represents on our scale.
The single busiest window in those 30 days fell between 00:00 and 02:00 on our measurement clock. That clock runs in UTC, so the peak window sits at 00:00-02:00 UTC rather than local Washington time; convert accordingly before you set it against a published schedule. For reference, our database places Reagan National at 38.8521 north, 77.0377 west, right by Washington itself.
Airlines we record most often at DCA
Three carriers lead our 30-day count at Reagan National. American Airlines is by far the most recorded airline at DCA in our data, with 601 observations in 30 days; its current operations are on the American Airlines flight status page. Delta Air Lines is number two in our count, with 196 measurements over the same period, and has its own Delta Air Lines flight status page. Southwest Airlines rounds out the top three at 162 observations; follow it on the Southwest Airlines flight status page. The gap is striking: American's count is higher than the other two combined, so at DCA one carrier sets the tone in our measurement.
Nearby airports around Washington
Travelers weighing an alternative to Reagan National have three nearby airports in our database to consider. The closest is Joint Base Andrews, only 15 km from DCA. Farther out are Washington Dulles International Airport, 38 km from DCA, and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, at 48 km; both have status pages of their own on this site. For airports beyond the Washington region, see our airport overview.