Flight number record
MQ 3496
Envoy Air · White Plains to Chicago
- Route
- HPN → ORD
- Departs
- 07:10
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3496, check with Envoy Air. Envoy Air flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
MQ 3496 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 an hour and a half. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, MQ 3496's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.77%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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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Schedule
When MQ 3496 flies
MQ 3496 flies HPN to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:10, used on 70 of 361 flights, with 06:00 (61 flights) and 07:00 (59 flights) next.
- Departs 07:1070 flights19.4%
- Departs 06:0061 flights16.9%
- Departs 07:0059 flights16.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 07:10 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and MQ 3496 runs level with that at 87.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
MQ 3496 next to HPN to ORD
Every carrier on HPN to ORD combined arrived on time 78.1% of the time across 1,561 flights, so MQ 3496 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3496thin sample | 361 | 87.4% | 93 min | 2.77% | A |
| All Envoy Air on HPN–ORD | 1,561 | 78.1% | 94 min | 4.10% | B− |
| All carriers on HPN–ORD | 1,561 | 78.1% | 94 min | 4.10% | B− |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 3496 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 3496 held fairly steady: 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.6%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights88.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 3496 ranged from 82.0% on Monday to 91.8% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 3496 runs when it is late
MQ 3496 often beats the schedule: 172 of 350 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early172 flights49.1%
- Within 15 min134 flights38.3%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 3496
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 6 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 6 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 April 2026 | 6 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 November 2025 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 25 May 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why MQ 3496 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,107 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Extreme weather
- 34%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 41% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 6.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,107 delay minutes reported on MQ 3496.
Cancellations run at 2.77%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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 routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 738 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.
Every one of the 361 flights under MQ 3496 in the data flew HPN to ORD. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 361 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 MQ 3496
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on MQ 3496: 2.77% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- HPN to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to HPN, the return direction
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- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
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- Every Envoy Air flight number with a record
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- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
A flight number here means Envoy Air’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.