Carrier route record

MQGSO→DCA

Envoy Air · Greensboro to Washington

Flights: 240
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 30%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on GSO to DCA 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 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 240 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on GSO to DCA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 225 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.25%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.7%

Every carrier on GSO to DCA, 800 flights

These figures cover 240 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 GSO to DCA

Envoy flew 240 of the 800 flights on GSO to DCA, about 30% of it. Its 75.6% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.6% to PSA at 70.4%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on GSO to DCA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	240	75.6%	67 min	6.25%	B−
Republic Airwaysthin sample	114	75.5%	65 min	2.63%	B
PSA Airlines	446	70.4%	111 min	5.61%	C−

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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am27 flights—
8am–11am151 flights81.5%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm62 flights48.1%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 81.5% of the time, against 48.1% for the afternoon window. That is 33 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 151 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on GSO to DCA through the year

Jul–Sep 202554 flights80.9%
Oct–Dec 202538 flights69.4%
Jan–Mar 202671 flights80.9%
Apr–Jun 202677 flights70.3%

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 75.6% on time across 240 flights.

Envoy on GSO to DCA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 60 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 63.2%. 22 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 51% of the 3,686 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
51%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
14%
Extreme weather
4%

51% 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 3,686 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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. The split is drawn from 3,686 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 81.5% on time here.

Cancellations run at 6.25%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

At 248 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.0% on time across 239 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 240 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 GSO to DCA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.25% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 225 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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