Carrier route record

MQDCA→MSP

Envoy Air · Washington to Minneapolis

Flights: 164
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 6%
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 MSP lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 164 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,701 at 78.9% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DCA to MSP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 160 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.44%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.6%

Every carrier on DCA to MSP, 2,632 flights

These figures cover 164 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.

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Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DCA to MSP

Envoy flew 164 of the 2,632 flights on DCA to MSP, about 6% of it. Its 76.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 78.9% to PSA at 65.4%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 78.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 65.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 528 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DCA to MSP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	1,701	78.9%	94 min	1.88%	B
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	164	76.9%	55 min	2.44%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	41	72.5%	62 min	2.44%	C
Republic Airwaysthin sample	198	72.2%	76 min	5.05%	C−
PSA Airlines	528	65.4%	96 min	7.20%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 7.2% 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 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 164 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's DCA to MSP record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 76.9% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to MSP through the year

Oct–Dec 202534 flights78.1%
Jan–Mar 202665 flights68.3%
Apr–Jun 202642 flights85.7%
Jul–Sep 202623 flights—

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 76.9% on time across 164 flights.

Envoy on DCA to MSP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.3%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 55 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 87.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 71.0%, a spread of 16 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

Envoy on DCA to MSP often beats the schedule: 52 of 160 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.

15+ min early52 flights32.5%
Within 15 min71 flights44.4%
15–29 min late18 flights11.3%
30–59 min late11 flights6.9%
1–2 hours late3 flights1.9%
2+ hours late5 flights3.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 160 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

8 of 34 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 11 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 MSP.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DCA to MSP

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 March 2026, 5 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DCA to MSP in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 March 2026	5 hours 32 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
17 March 2026	3 hours 3 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 January 2026	2 hours 58 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
11 February 2026	2 hours 46 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 May 2026	2 hours 16 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 2,050 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
60%
National Airspace System
19%
Carrier
13%
Extreme weather
7%
Security
0%

60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,050 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 2,050 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.44% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 931 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 67.5% on time across 163 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 164 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 MSP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 164 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 76.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 160 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.

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