Washington DC (DCA) to Dallas (DFW): 1,190 miles (1,915 km) great-circle, about 2h 55m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $406 round-trip on Southwest, nonstop, departing June 18, 2026.
$406 round-trip, Southwest WN4377, departing 2026-06-18 at 20:35, returning 2026-06-22. The recorded itinerary left on a Thursday, returning on a Monday 4 nights later; the fare was observed 54 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $406, it ranked 12th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from DCA (median $998). That is 34.1 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the DCA median of 26.4 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from DCA of similar length: Austin (1,313 mi) at $268 and Miami (922 mi) at $243.
Southwest had the cheapest fare on 4 of 30 DCA routes. It is the 24th longest of the 30 routes we track from DCA.
Of 27 departure airports with a fare to Dallas, Washington DC (DCA) ranked 22nd at $406. Lowest: $106 from Atlanta (ATL); highest: $1741 from Hyderabad (HYD); 14 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Frontier (13), Spirit (5), American Airlines (2), Qatar (2), Alaska Airlines (1) and Emirates (1), plus 3 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/New_York, America/Chicago; flight time is our estimate.