Carrier route record

MQDCA→CLE

Envoy Air · Washington to Cleveland

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 DCA to CLE earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 149 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DCA to CLE record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 146 completed flights

Avg delay

33 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.01%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.1%

Every carrier on DCA to CLE, 1,608 flights

These figures cover 149 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DCA to CLE

Envoy flew 149 of the 1,608 flights on DCA to CLE, about 9% of it. Its 87.7% on time is 21 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 88.9% to PSA at 64.4%. 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 DCA to CLE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	19	88.9%	19 min	5.26%	A−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	149	87.7%	33 min	2.01%	A
American Airlinesthin sample	7	85.7%	18 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines	1,433	64.4%	79 min	8.03%	D−

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 DCA to CLE record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 87.7% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to CLE through the year

Oct–Dec 202533 flights93.9%
Jan–Mar 202673 flights80.3%
Apr–Jun 202643 flights95.2%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 87.7% on time across 149 flights.

Envoy on DCA to CLE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.3%, a swing of 15 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

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 585 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
36%
National Airspace System
34%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 209 of the 585 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 585 reported delay minutes.

34% 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 201 minutes out of 585, against a national NAS share of 21%.

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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 53.4% on time across 149 flights, 34 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 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 DCA to CLE

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 87.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 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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