Carrier route record
MQBNA→DCA
Envoy Air · Nashville to Washington
- Flights
- 116
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 3%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on BNA to DCA sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 116 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,861 at 75.1% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 75.1% on time across 1,861 flights.
Key figures
On time
73.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 110 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.17%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on BNA to DCA, 4,330 flights
These figures cover 116 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on BNA to DCA
Envoy flew 116 of the 4,330 flights on BNA to DCA, about 3% of it. Its 73.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 78.4% to PSA at 65.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 75.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 65.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 387 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 313 | 78.4% | 65 min | 5.43% | B− |
| Republic Airways | 1,861 | 75.1% | 62 min | 2.90% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 116 | 73.6% | 60 min | 5.17% | C− |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,653 | 72.2% | 52 min | 1.45% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 387 | 65.1% | 117 min | 10.08% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 10.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 116 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's BNA to DCA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 73.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on BNA to DCA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202549 flights69.6%
- Oct–Dec 202532 flights78.1%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights75.0%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.6% on time across 116 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on BNA to DCA held fairly steady: 69.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.1% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 75.0% 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.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 1,751 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,751 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,751 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.17%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
8.2% 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 562 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.
The return leg runs 75.7% on time across 115 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 116 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 Envoy on BNA to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.17% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 110 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DCA, every carrier
- Envoy on DCA to BNA, the return leg
- American Airlines on BNA to DCA78.4%
- Republic Airways on BNA to DCA75.1%
- Southwest Airlines on BNA to DCA72.2%
- PSA Airlines on BNA to DCA65.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.