Carrier route record

MQCLE→DCA

Envoy Air · Cleveland to Washington

Flights: 149
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. 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 77.6%, so Envoy on CLE to DCA runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 242 extra late arrivals.

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 1.81%

Whole route

65.6%

Every carrier on CLE to DCA, 1,609 flights

These figures cover 149 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on CLE to DCA

Envoy flew 149 of the 1,609 flights on CLE to DCA, about 9% of it. Its 53.4% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 65.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.7% 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLE to DCA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	7	85.7%	17 min	0.00%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	19	84.2%	30 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlines	1,434	66.6%	104 min	8.51%	C−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	149	53.4%	61 min	2.01%	F

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%. 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 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.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 59% of the 4,117 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.

National Airspace System
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
25%
Carrier
16%
Security
0%
Extreme weather
0%

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 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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.

Where to go next

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.

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