Carrier route record
MQMSP→DCA
Envoy Air · Minneapolis to Washington
- Flights
- 163
- 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 MSP to DCA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 163 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,701 at 75.9% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Envoy on MSP to DCA runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 98 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 154 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.29%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on MSP to DCA, 2,632 flights
These figures cover 163 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.6% 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 MSP to DCA
Envoy flew 163 of the 2,632 flights on MSP to DCA, about 6% of it. Its 67.5% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.1% to American at 61.5%. Two 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 199 | 78.1% | 71 min | 5.03% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,701 | 75.9% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 528 | 72.2% | 168 min | 6.06% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 163 | 67.5% | 65 min | 4.29% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 61.5% | 73 min | 4.88% | D− |
PSA Airlines cancels 6.1% 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 163 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's MSP to DCA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 67.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on MSP to DCA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202533 flights60.0%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights60.7%
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights80.5%
- Jul–Sep 202623 flights—
Scale runs 50% 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 67.5% on time across 163 flights.
Envoy on MSP to DCA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 60.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 54 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 83.3% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on MSP to DCA runs when it is late
Envoy on MSP to DCA often beats the schedule: 55 of 154 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early55 flights35.7%
- Within 15 min49 flights31.8%
- 15–29 min late19 flights12.3%
- 30–59 min late10 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 154 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 48 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% 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 DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on MSP to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 March 2026, 5 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 November 2025 | 2 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 February 2026 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 3,239 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 45%National Airspace System
- 8%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,239 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 to one. The split is drawn from 3,239 reported delay minutes.
45% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,467 minutes out of 3,239, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.29%, 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
13.6% 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 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 76.9% on time across 164 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 163 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 MSP to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.29% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 154 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to DCA, every carrier
- Envoy on DCA to MSP, the return leg
- Republic Airways on MSP to DCA78.1%
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to DCA75.9%
- PSA Airlines on MSP to DCA72.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.