Flights from Boston to Washington, DC

• JetBlue Airways, go Operated by Mesa Airlines, UNITED operate the shortest flights from Boston to Washington.
• In 2009, there were 10 airline companies operating between Boston and Washington.
• UNITED, JetBlue Airways, go Operated by Mesa Airlines, Chautauqua Airlines, Shuttle America, Delta Airlines, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Comair, Freedom Air offer flights from Boston, MA to Washington, DC.
• go Operated by Mesa Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Boston to Washington.
• 531,748 seats were available on flights from BOS to IAD in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 386,095 passengers flew on all flights from BOS to IAD that year.
• UNITED carried a total of 190,436 passengers from BOS to IAD in 2009.
• The shortest flight distance between Boston and Washington is 413 miles.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Boston and Washington from UNITED is the B777-2 built by Boeing with 258 seats.
• The shortest flight between BOS and IAD takes about 68 minutes.
• The newest aircraft servicing BOS to IAD in 2009 was JetBlue Airways' EMB-190 from Embraer. The EMB-190 started flying in 2005.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Boston, MA to Washington, DC in 2009 was Air Greenland's B737-4 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• UNITED operated flights from BOS to IAD using 7 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Boston to Washington in 2009 was 77.87%.
• Flight #7337, operated by go Operated by Mesa Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 49 minutes average delay between flights from Boston to Washington.
• There were 386,095 passengers that flew from Boston to Washington in 2009.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from BOS to IAD for Freedom Air is the BD-700 built by Bombardier with 12 seats.
• The average flight time from Boston, MA to Washington, DC takes about 71 minutes.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)