Flight number record

MQ 3656

Envoy Air · Little Rock to Chicago

Route: LIT → ORD
Departs: 07:05
Flights: 327
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

74.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 327 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% 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.

Schedule

When MQ 3656 flies

MQ 3656 flies LIT to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 60 of 327 flights, with 07:10 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0560 flights18.3%
Departs 07:1051 flights15.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 07:05 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 15 points worse at 74.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

MQ 3656 next to LIT to ORD

Every carrier on LIT to ORD combined arrived on time 67.8% of the time across 1,404 flights, so MQ 3656 is 7 points ahead of it. Envoy flew 952 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.1% on time. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

MQ 3656 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MQ 3656thin sample	327	74.5%	75 min	1.22%	C
All Envoy Air on LIT–ORD	952	71.1%	68 min	1.68%	C
All carriers on LIT–ORD	1,404	67.8%	77 min	2.85%	C
Envoy Air, whole network	315,435	80.2%	67 min	2.30%	B

Across the year

MQ 3656 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter MQ 3656 held fairly steady: 72.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 75.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 74.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.3% in Apr–Jun 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 202582 flights72.8%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights75.6%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights74.0%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.3%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, MQ 3656 did best on Friday at 80.4% on time and worst on Monday at 60.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why MQ 3656 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 6,139 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.

Carrier
62%
National Airspace System
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,826 of the 6,139 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,139 delay minutes reported on MQ 3656.

Cancellations sit at 1.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.61%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 327 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. 327 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 74.5% on time with 1.22% cancelled over 327 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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