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Carrier route record

MQDCA→BNA

Envoy Air · Washington to Nashville

Flights
143
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
3%
Carriers
5
BGRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on DCA to BNA lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 143 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,845 at 81.8% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 81.8% on time across 1,845 flights.

Key figures

On time

76.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 141 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.40%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.7%

Every carrier on DCA to BNA, 4,384 flights

These figures cover 143 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

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Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DCA to BNA

Envoy flew 143 of the 4,384 flights on DCA to BNA, about 3% of it. Its 76.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.8% to PSA at 60.1%. 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 81.8% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 60.1%. 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 DCA to BNA
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Republic Airways1,84581.8%64 min2.44%B
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample14376.6%58 min1.40%B
Southwest Airlines1,70774.4%58 min2.23%C
American Airlinesthin sample29063.8%82 min4.83%D−
PSA Airlines39960.1%78 min8.77%D−

PSA Airlines cancels 8.8% 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 143 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 76.6% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to BNA through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
  • Oct–Dec 202531 flights80.6%
  • Apr–Jun 202635 flights74.3%
  • Jul–Sep 202653 flights82.4%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 76.6% on time across 143 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DCA to BNA held fairly steady: 80.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 74.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 82.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 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 DCA to BNA runs when it is late

Envoy on DCA to BNA often beats the schedule: 37 of 141 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early37 flights26.2%
  • Within 15 min71 flights50.4%
  • 15–29 min late14 flights9.9%
  • 30–59 min late12 flights8.5%
  • 1–2 hours late4 flights2.8%
  • 2+ hours late3 flights2.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 141 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 26 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 10 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 BNA.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DCA to BNA

The latest arrival of the period was on 30 September 2025, 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DCA to BNA in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
30 September 20256 hours 53 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
25 May 20262 hours 49 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
29 October 20252 hours 39 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
19 August 20261 hour 59 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
11 September 20251 hour 33 minutesLate-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 1,914 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • Late-arriving aircraft
    62%
  • Carrier
    19%
  • National Airspace System
    18%
  • Extreme weather
    1%

62% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,914 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 62 to one. The split is drawn from 1,914 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.0% 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 71.1% on time across 144 flights, 6 points below 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. 143 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. 143 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 76.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 141 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.