Carrier route record
MQCLE→DCA
Envoy Air · Cleveland to Washington
- Flights
- 149
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CLE to DCA earns an F, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 53.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 24 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average about an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 149 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Envoy on CLE to DCA runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 239 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
53.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 146 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.01%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
63.8%
Every carrier on CLE to DCA, 1,605 flights
These figures cover 149 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 CLE to DCA
Envoy flew 149 of the 1,605 flights on CLE to DCA, about 9% of it. Its 53.4% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 63.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 89.1% to Envoy at 53.4%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 46 | 89.1% | 37 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 7 | 85.7% | 17 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,403 | 64.0% | 108 min | 9.05% | D− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 149 | 53.4% | 61 min | 2.01% | F |
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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 149 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's CLE to DCA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 53.4% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on CLE to DCA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202533 flights60.6%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights40.8%
- Apr–Jun 202643 flights69.0%
Scale runs 30% to 75%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 53.4% on time across 149 flights.
Envoy on CLE to DCA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 40.8%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 50 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on CLE to DCA runs when it is late
The 68 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early32 flights21.9%
- Within 15 min46 flights31.5%
- 15–29 min late26 flights17.8%
- 30–59 min late25 flights17.1%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 146 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 32 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 0 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 36 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 CLE to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 March 2026, 8 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2026 | 8 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 March 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 November 2025 | 3 hours 24 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 59% of the 4,117 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 0%Security
- 0%Extreme weather
59% 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 2,442 minutes out of 4,117, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,117 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.01% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 310 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.7% on time across 149 flights, 34 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 34 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 149 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 CLE to DCA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 149 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 53.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 146 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to DCA, every carrier
- Envoy on DCA to CLE, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CLE to DCA64.0%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- How late do late flights run? The long tail of US delays
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.