Carrier route record
MQDCA→HSV
Envoy Air · Washington to Huntsville
- Flights
- 318
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 24%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DCA to HSV 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 318 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DCA to HSV from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.09%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.3%
Every carrier on DCA to HSV, 1,307 flights
These figures cover 318 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% 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 HSV
Envoy flew 318 of the 1,307 flights on DCA to HSV, about 24% of it. Its 74.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 84.9% to PSA at 69.4%. One 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 54 | 84.9% | 34 min | 1.85% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 318 | 74.7% | 79 min | 4.09% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 935 | 69.4% | 80 min | 4.71% | C− |
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am91 flights81.3%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm122 flights69.9%
- 5pm–8pm26 flights—
- 8pm–5am78 flights69.9%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 81.3% of the time, against 69.9% for the overnight window. That is 11 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 122 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DCA to HSV through the year
- Jul–Sep 202559 flights70.2%
- Oct–Dec 202556 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202613 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202675 flights77.8%
- Jul–Sep 2026115 flights72.0%
Scale runs 60% 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 74.7% on time across 318 flights.
Envoy on DCA to HSV did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.2%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 80 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, Monday is the strongest day at 79.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DCA to HSV runs when it is late
Envoy on DCA to HSV often beats the schedule: 94 of 304 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights30.9%
- Within 15 min133 flights43.8%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late21 flights6.9%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 304 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 HSV.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DCA to HSV
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 March 2026, 13 hours 30 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2026 | 13 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 August 2026 | 4 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 September 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 6,087 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,087 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 6,087 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.09%, 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
11.2% 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.
The 613 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 runs 74.6% on time across 319 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 318 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 HSV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.09% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 304 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.