Washington DC (IAD) to Dallas (DFW): 1,170 miles (1,882 km) great-circle, about 2h 50m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $268 round-trip on Frontier, with 1 stop, departing June 18, 2026.
$268 round-trip, Frontier F92959, departing 2026-06-18 at 17:47, 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 $268, it ranked 9th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from IAD (median $775). That is 22.9 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the IAD median of 22.5 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from IAD of similar length: Austin (1,295 mi) at $264 and Miami (923 mi) at $211.
Frontier had the cheapest fare on 8 of 30 IAD routes. It is the 24th longest of the 30 routes we track from IAD.
Of 27 departure airports with a fare to Dallas, Washington DC (IAD) ranked 19th at $268. 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.