Flights from Houston to Washington, DC

• The shortest flight distance between Houston and Washington is 1208 miles.
• Continental Airlines, American Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines offer flights from Houston, TX to Washington, DC.
• Continental Airlines operates the shortest flights from Houston to Washington.
• 355,221 seats were available on flights from IAH to DCA in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 275,911 passengers flew on all flights from IAH to DCA that year.
• Continental Airlines operated flights from IAH to DCA using 4 types of aircraft in 2009.
• There were 275,911 passengers that flew from Houston to Washington in 2009.
• The average flight time from Houston, TX to Washington, DC takes about 148 minutes.
• In 2009, there were 3 airline companies operating between Houston and Washington.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Houston, TX to Washington, DC in 2009 was American Airlines' B757-2 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Houston to Washington in 2009 was 79.31%.
• Continental Airlines carried a total of 275,586 passengers from IAH to DCA in 2009.
• The newest aircraft servicing IAH to DCA in 2009 was Continental Airlines' B737-7 from Boeing. The B737-7 started flying in 1998.
• The shortest flight between IAH and DCA takes about 148 minutes.
• Flight #658, operated by Continental Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 4 minutes average delay between flights from Houston to Washington.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from IAH to DCA for ExpressJet Airlines is the EMB-145 built by Embraer with 50 seats.
• Continental Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Houston to Washington.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Houston and Washington from American Airlines is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 188 seats.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)