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How Does Ashburn Stack Up for Air Fares, On-Time Flights?
Find out if your airport is a soaring success — or if that's hardly the case.
UGH! That's bound to be your instant reaction when you see the word "airport," especially if you're a person who has endured today's long lines, pat-downs, baggage fees, surly workers, crowded gate areas, dirty restrooms, weak WiFi, flights delayed, flights cancelled, garbled announcements, bad food at high prices, and annoying monitors booming cable news.
Not to mention confusing fares, packed planes, cramped cabins, smelly seatmates, testy flight attendants, disgusting seat-back trays, bumpy flights, late landings, dragged-out deplaning, missed connections, baggage delays, lost luggage, and aggravatingly long bus rides to your parked car.
Ugh, indeed.
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Think you’ve had it worse than most air travelers? Find out how your local airport stacks up against others across the U.S. when it comes to ticket prices, on-time arrivals and departures, and more.
Average Air Fares from Ashburn, Virginia
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According to the government’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, people flying out of Richmond International (RIC) or Norfolk International (ORF) or Charlottesville Albemarle (CHO) are paying an average round-trip fare of $412.23 and $421.02 and $433.22 respectively.
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What do you think? Does that seem high to you? Or maybe lower than you've experienced? Remember, that's the average.
The average airline ticket price in the State of Virginia during the third quarter of 2018 was $445.65, the government says.
The national average airline ticket price during the quarter was $444.27.
In Virginia, you'll pay an average 0% more than the national average.
| Region | Airport | Avg. Fare |
|---|---|---|
| U.S.A. | — | $444.27 |
| Virginia | — | $445.65 |
| Richmond | Richmond International | $412.23 |
| Norfolk | Norfolk International | $421.02 |
| Charlottesville | Charlottesville Albemarle | $433.22 |
| Roanoke | Roanoke Blacksburg Regional Woodrum Field | $514.31 |
| Newport News/Williamsburg | Newport News/Williamsburg International | $481.85 |
| Lynchburg | Lynchburg Regional/Preston Glenn Field | $477.14 |
| Staunton | Shenandoah Valley Regional | $384.25 |
On-time performance at RIC & ORF & CHO
An aerial view of the airport in Newark, New Jersey.
Now let’s see how your airport rates for getting flights in and out on time. And see if your feeling that the place is ALWAYS running behind schedule is accurate.
Given your ease-of-access to multiple airports, consider booking your next flight from the airport with the best on-time performance. Of the departures from RIC and ORF and CHO last year, 77.9% and 77.7% and 77.6% respectively got off on time, and 19.4% and 18.1% and 18.8% respectively were delayed.
Now you know the odds, next time you have a flight to catch.
Where you live, do the airports have some work to do? For comparison, 82.0% of flights at all U.S. airports were on time last year through October and 16.0% were delayed, according to the federal agency.