Carrier route record

MQBNA→DCA

Envoy Air · Nashville to Washington

Flights: 144
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 3%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 144 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,845 at 74.1% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 74.1% on time across 1,845 flights.

On time

71.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 135 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.25%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

71.3%

Every carrier on BNA to DCA, 4,387 flights

These figures cover 144 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on BNA to DCA

Envoy flew 144 of the 4,387 flights on BNA to DCA, about 3% of it. Its 71.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 74.1% to PSA at 67.3%. 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 74.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 67.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 399 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on BNA to DCA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	1,845	74.1%	65 min	3.09%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	291	72.9%	80 min	4.81%	C−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	144	71.1%	58 min	6.25%	C−
Southwest Airlines	1,708	68.9%	52 min	1.52%	C
PSA Airlines	399	67.3%	121 min	7.52%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 7.5% 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.

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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 144 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 71.1% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on BNA to DCA through the year

Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
Oct–Dec 202532 flights78.1%
Apr–Jun 202635 flights75.0%
Jul–Sep 202653 flights68.8%

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 71.1% on time across 144 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on BNA to DCA held fairly steady: 78.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 68.8% in Jul–Sep 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.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on BNA to DCA runs when it is late

The 39 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.

15+ min early29 flights21.5%
Within 15 min67 flights49.6%
15–29 min late11 flights8.1%
30–59 min late17 flights12.6%
1–2 hours late7 flights5.2%
2+ hours late4 flights3.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 135 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

4 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 11 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DCA.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on BNA to DCA

The latest arrival of the period was on 25 May 2026, 3 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on BNA to DCA in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
25 May 2026	3 hours 15 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 July 2026	2 hours 52 minutes	National Airspace System
29 October 2025	2 hours 31 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 July 2026	2 hours 20 minutes	Carrier
19 August 2026	1 hour 49 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 2,246 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
National Airspace System
39%
Carrier
10%
Extreme weather
4%

47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,246 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 2,246 reported delay minutes.

39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 879 minutes out of 2,246, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations run at 6.25%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.6% on time across 143 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 144 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 6.25% 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. 135 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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