Flight number record
MQ 3627
Envoy Air · Washington to Little Rock
- Route
- DCA → LIT
- Departs
- 17:22
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3627, check with Envoy Air. Envoy Air flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
MQ 3627 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so MQ 3627 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.04%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When MQ 3627 flies
MQ 3627 flies DCA to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:22, used on 63 of 362 flights, with 17:48 (38 flights) and 17:36 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:2263 flights17.4%
- Departs 17:4838 flights10.5%
- Departs 17:3637 flights10.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 17:22 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and MQ 3627 runs 4 points better at 71.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
MQ 3627 next to DCA to LIT
Every carrier on DCA to LIT combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 364 flights, so MQ 3627 is about level with it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3627thin sample | 362 | 71.8% | 63 min | 3.04% | C− |
| All Envoy Air on DCA–LITthin sample | 362 | 71.8% | 63 min | 3.04% | C− |
| All carriers on DCA–LITthin sample | 364 | 71.4% | 62 min | 3.02% | C− |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 315,435 | 80.2% | 67 min | 2.30% | B |
Across the year
MQ 3627 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 3627 held fairly steady: 68.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 67.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights68.2%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.4%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 3627 did best on Monday at 79.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 56.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why MQ 3627 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,178 reported delay minutes.
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 23%Extreme weather
- 18%Carrier
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 23% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,178 delay minutes reported on MQ 3627.
Cancellations run at 3.04%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 888 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 362 flights under MQ 3627 in the data flew DCA to LIT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking MQ 3627
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on MQ 3627: 3.04% of its 362 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on-time record
- Every Envoy Air flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
A flight number here means Envoy Air’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.