Flight number record
MQ 3656
Envoy Air · Little Rock to Chicago
- Route
- LIT → ORD
- Departs
- 06:31
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3656, 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 3656 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When MQ 3656 flies
MQ 3656 flies LIT to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:31, used on 62 of 336 flights, with 07:05 (60 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3162 flights18.5%
- Departs 07:0560 flights17.9%
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 06:31 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and MQ 3656 runs 11 points worse at 77.9%. 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 3656 next to LIT to ORD
Every carrier on LIT to ORD combined arrived on time 69.6% of the time across 1,430 flights, so MQ 3656 is 8 points ahead of it. Envoy flew 992 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.2% on time. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3656thin sample | 336 | 77.9% | 81 min | 1.19% | B |
| All Envoy Air on LIT–ORD | 992 | 72.2% | 73 min | 1.92% | C |
| All carriers on LIT–ORD | 1,430 | 69.6% | 80 min | 3.15% | C− |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 3656 quarter by quarter
MQ 3656 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 85.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.0%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 84 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.
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights75.6%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights74.0%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 3656 did best on Saturday at 84.0% on time and worst on Monday at 65.4%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 3656 runs when it is late
MQ 3656 often beats the schedule: 107 of 330 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 73 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights32.4%
- Within 15 min150 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late23 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 330 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 50 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 28 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 ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 3656
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 11 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2026 | 11 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 April 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 June 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 August 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why MQ 3656 runs late
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 5,939 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,939 delay minutes reported on MQ 3656.
Cancellations sit at 1.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.60%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.8% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 552 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 336 flights under MQ 3656 in the data flew LIT 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. 336 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 3656
For a booking, read MQ 3656 as 77.9% on time with 1.19% cancelled over 336 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to LIT, the return direction
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on-time record
- Every Envoy Air flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.