Carrier route record
MQDCA→BNA
Envoy Air · Washington to Nashville
- Flights
- 115
- 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 DCA to BNA sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 115 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,861 at 83.5% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 83.5% on time across 1,861 flights.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.1%
Every carrier on DCA to BNA, 4,329 flights
These figures cover 115 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DCA to BNA
Envoy flew 115 of the 4,329 flights on DCA to BNA, about 3% of it. Its 75.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 83.5% to PSA at 59.2%. 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 83.5% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 59.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 1,861 | 83.5% | 61 min | 2.26% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,653 | 75.9% | 63 min | 2.00% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 115 | 75.7% | 65 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 313 | 65.5% | 75 min | 5.43% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 387 | 59.2% | 78 min | 10.08% | D− |
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 115 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's DCA to BNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 75.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on DCA to BNA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202549 flights73.5%
- Oct–Dec 202531 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights74.3%
Scale runs 65% 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 75.7% on time across 115 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DCA to BNA held fairly steady: 73.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.6% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 74.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 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 60% of the 1,824 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
60% 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 1,824 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 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 1,824 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.1% 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 73.6% on time across 116 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. 115 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 DCA to BNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 115 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 75.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 115 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to BNA, every carrier
- Envoy on BNA to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to BNA83.5%
- Southwest Airlines on DCA to BNA75.9%
- American Airlines on DCA to BNA65.5%
- PSA Airlines on DCA to BNA59.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.