DCA to PBI: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Washington to West Palm Beach?

The great-circle distance between Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and President Donald J. Trump International Airport (PBI) is 1,383 km (859 mi, 747 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from DCA to PBI?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 2h 15m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. PBI is roughly south of DCA.

How is the DCA to PBI route written in code?

The pair is written DCA-PBI in IATA codes and KDCA-KPBI in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is DCA (KDCA), President Donald J. Trump International Airport is PBI (KPBI).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

The two fields sit at almost the same height, within 4 ft (1 m) of each other.

Airlines flying DCA to PBI

No carrier is listed as operating this pair in the open route dataset. It appears only as a codeshare, sold by AA, USon another airline's aircraft.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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