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Carrier route record

MQDCA→PIT

Envoy Air · Washington to Pittsburgh

Flights
170
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
12%
Carriers
4
AGRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on DCA to PIT 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 170 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 371 at 75.1% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DCA to PIT record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

87.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 165 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.94%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

72.7%

Every carrier on DCA to PIT, 1,413 flights

These figures cover 170 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 PIT

Envoy flew 170 of the 1,413 flights on DCA to PIT, about 12% of it. Its 87.3% on time is 15 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.3% to American at 57.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DCA to PIT
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample17087.3%44 min2.94%A
PSA Airlines37175.1%67 min6.74%B−
Republic Airways74970.9%61 min3.87%C−
American Airlinesthin sample12357.0%94 min1.63%D

PSA Airlines cancels 6.7% 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 170 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's DCA to PIT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 87.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on DCA to PIT through the year

  • Oct–Dec 202543 flights92.9%
  • Jan–Mar 202678 flights77.0%
  • Apr–Jun 202649 flights98.0%

Scale runs 70% to 100%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 87.3% on time across 170 flights.

Envoy on DCA to PIT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 98.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 57 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.

Arrival by arrival

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

Envoy on DCA to PIT often beats the schedule: 53 of 165 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.

  • 15+ min early53 flights32.1%
  • Within 15 min91 flights55.2%
  • 15–29 min late8 flights4.8%
  • 30–59 min late7 flights4.2%
  • 1–2 hours late6 flights3.6%
  • 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 165 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

3 of 23 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DCA to PIT

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 February 2026, 1 hour 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DCA to PIT in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
11 February 20261 hour 39 minutesCarrier
6 March 20261 hour 36 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
30 January 20261 hour 24 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
29 January 20261 hour 11 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
29 November 20251 hour 6 minutesCarrier

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 919 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • Late-arriving aircraft
    52%
  • Carrier
    37%
  • National Airspace System
    9%
  • Extreme weather
    1%

52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 919 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 919 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 344 of the 919 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 2.94%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 204 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 51.2% on time across 170 flights, 36 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 36 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 170 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 PIT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.94% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 45 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 165 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.