Carrier route record
MQDCA→CMH
Envoy Air · Washington to Columbus
- Flights
- 258
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DCA to CMH 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 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 258 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 989 at 80.1% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DCA to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.26%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.6%
Every carrier on DCA to CMH, 2,051 flights
These figures cover 258 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 CMH
Envoy flew 258 of the 2,051 flights on DCA to CMH, about 13% of it. Its 75.3% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.1% to PSA at 73.7%. 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 80.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 455 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 989 | 80.1% | 65 min | 2.63% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 349 | 77.1% | 54 min | 0.57% | B+ |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 258 | 75.3% | 103 min | 4.26% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 455 | 73.7% | 82 min | 8.79% | C− |
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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm9 flights—
- 5pm–8pm178 flights70.6%
- 8pm–5am70 flights83.6%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 83.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.
Across the year
Envoy on DCA to CMH through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights75.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights68.2%
- Apr–Jun 202654 flights77.4%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 60% 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 75.3% on time across 258 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DCA to CMH held fairly steady: 75.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 68.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 92.7% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 63.9%, a spread of 29 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DCA to CMH runs when it is late
Envoy on DCA to CMH often beats the schedule: 85 of 247 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 61 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights34.4%
- Within 15 min101 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late15 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late18 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late13 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 66 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DCA to CMH
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 May 2026, 15 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2026 | 15 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 January 2026 | 14 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 January 2026 | 4 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 February 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 70% of the 6,274 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 5%Carrier
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,274 reported delay minutes.
70% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,274 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.26%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
11.3% 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 323 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 88.7% on time across 258 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 258 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 CMH
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.26% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 247 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to CMH, every carrier
- Envoy on CMH to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to CMH80.1%
- Southwest Airlines on DCA to CMH77.1%
- PSA Airlines on DCA to CMH73.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.