Carrier route record

MQDCA→BOS

Envoy Air · Washington to Boston

Flights: 241
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 DCA to BOS sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 241 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 3,998 at 76.9% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 76.9% on time across 3,998 flights.

On time

73.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 223 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.47%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

70.1%

Every carrier on DCA to BOS, 9,104 flights

These figures cover 241 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% 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 DCA to BOS

Envoy flew 241 of the 9,104 flights on DCA to BOS, about 3% of it. Its 73.1% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.5% to JetBlue at 63.3%. 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 76.9% of the time; JetBlue Airways manages 63.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,624 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DCA to BOS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Linesthin sample	8	87.5%	53 min	0.00%	A+
Republic Airways	3,998	76.9%	70 min	4.40%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	241	73.1%	65 min	7.47%	C−
American Airlines	2,233	65.5%	84 min	2.96%	C
JetBlue Airways	2,624	63.3%	89 min	5.14%	D−

JetBlue Airways cancels 5.1% 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.

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Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm167 flights80.0%
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am73 flights54.8%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 54.8% on time, against 80.0% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 167 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to BOS through the year

Oct–Dec 202545 flights72.1%
Jan–Mar 202673 flights81.2%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights75.3%
Jul–Sep 202644 flights55.3%

Scale runs 45% to 85%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.1% on time across 241 flights.

Envoy on DCA to BOS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 55.3%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 60 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.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 81.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 63.9%, a spread of 17 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

Envoy on DCA to BOS often beats the schedule: 59 of 223 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.

15+ min early59 flights26.5%
Within 15 min104 flights46.6%
15–29 min late15 flights6.7%
30–59 min late22 flights9.9%
1–2 hours late16 flights7.2%
2+ hours late7 flights3.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 223 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 62 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DCA to BOS

The latest arrival of the period was on 27 April 2026, 5 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DCA to BOS in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
27 April 2026	5 hours 55 minutes	Carrier
4 November 2025	3 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 March 2026	3 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
5 April 2026	2 hours 54 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 March 2026	2 hours 52 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 66% of the 3,917 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
66%
Carrier
19%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
0%

66% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,917 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 66 to one. The split is drawn from 3,917 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 7.47%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twelve 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

10.3% 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 399 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 78.5% on time across 241 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 241 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 BOS

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.47% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 223 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.

Key figures