Route brief · DFW → WAS
Dallas → Washington
$199
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 9 – Oct 14 · 5 nights
Frontier AirlinesNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWASWashingtonFree museums by the dozen, and three airports competing hard enough to keep transatlantic fares honest.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsDulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)All routes into WashingtonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Washington: Apr–May · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Frontier Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $199 for 1,902 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Washington, this fare ranks 3rd — 59% above the $125 from Miami. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $221 then versus $228 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $155, on Oct 7.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,902 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
DFW → WAS, answered.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Washington?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Washington?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Frontier Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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