Carrier route record

MQDCA→CMH

Envoy Air · Washington to Columbus

Flights: 316
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
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 CMH sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 316 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 970 at 80.7% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

74.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights

Avg delay

95 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.70%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.8%

Every carrier on DCA to CMH, 2,056 flights

These figures cover 316 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DCA to CMH

Envoy flew 316 of the 2,056 flights on DCA to CMH, about 15% of it. Its 74.5% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.7% to PSA at 71.2%. 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 80.7% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 71.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 419 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DCA to CMH
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	970	80.7%	66 min	2.68%	B
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	351	80.4%	68 min	0.28%	B+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	316	74.5%	95 min	5.70%	C−
PSA Airlines	419	71.2%	68 min	5.49%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.5% 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 316 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm1 flights—
2pm–5pm9 flights—
5pm–8pm179 flights70.2%
8pm–5am127 flights78.6%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 78.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 8 points.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to CMH through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights78.0%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights75.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights68.2%
Apr–Jun 202654 flights77.4%

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 74.5% on time across 316 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DCA to CMH held fairly steady: 78.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 75.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 68.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 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 87.0% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 67.4%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 7,212 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
68%
Extreme weather
17%
Carrier
8%
National Airspace System
7%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,212 reported delay minutes.

68% 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 7,212 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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.

Cancellations run at 5.70%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 89.1% on time across 315 flights, 15 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 15 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 316 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 5.70% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 298 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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