Carrier route record
MQHSV→DCA
Envoy Air · Huntsville to Washington
- Flights
- 319
- 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 HSV to DCA 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 about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 319 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 HSV to DCA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.3%
Every carrier on HSV to DCA, 1,310 flights
These figures cover 319 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 HSV to DCA
Envoy flew 319 of the 1,310 flights on HSV to DCA, about 24% of it. Its 74.6% 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 81.1% to PSA at 69.6%. 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 | 81.1% | 30 min | 1.85% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 319 | 74.6% | 58 min | 3.76% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 937 | 69.6% | 110 min | 4.06% | 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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am67 flights87.9%
- 8am–11am105 flights83.7%
- 11am–2pm7 flights—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm140 flights59.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.2% on time, against 87.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 140 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on HSV to DCA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202558 flights70.2%
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights77.2%
- Jan–Mar 202613 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202676 flights78.1%
- Jul–Sep 2026115 flights73.1%
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 74.6% on time across 319 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on HSV to DCA held fairly steady: 70.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 73.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 78.3% on time and Thursday the weakest at 69.6%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on HSV to DCA runs when it is late
Envoy on HSV to DCA often beats the schedule: 91 of 307 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 78 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights29.6%
- Within 15 min138 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late25 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights8.1%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 78 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on HSV to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 September 2025, 2 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 June 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 June 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 September 2025 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 July 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 4,514 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 12%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,514 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 4,514 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 87.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.76%, 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
10.1% 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 74.7% on time across 318 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. 319 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 HSV to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.76% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 307 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.