Flight number record

MQ 3824

Envoy Air · Bentonville to Washington

Route: XNA → DCA
Departs: 07:15
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3824, 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 3824 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 35 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, MQ 3824's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 155 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

36 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

0.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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.

Schedule

When MQ 3824 flies

MQ 3824 flies XNA to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:15, used on 71 of 363 flights, with 06:45 (63 flights) and 06:00 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:1571 flights19.6%
Departs 06:4563 flights17.4%
Departs 06:0038 flights10.5%

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 07:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and MQ 3824 runs 4 points better at 93.1%. 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 3824 next to XNA to DCA

Every carrier on XNA to DCA combined arrived on time 93.1% of the time across 365 flights, so MQ 3824 is about level with it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

MQ 3824 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MQ 3824thin sample	363	93.1%	36 min	0.83%	A+
All Envoy Air on XNA–DCA	365	93.1%	36 min	0.82%	A+
All carriers on XNA–DCA	365	93.1%	36 min	0.82%	A+
Envoy Air, whole network	315,435	80.2%	67 min	2.30%	B

Across the year

MQ 3824 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter MQ 3824 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.4% in Apr–Jun 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.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights93.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, MQ 3824 ranged from 86.3% on Sunday to 98.0% on Saturday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why MQ 3824 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 895 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
41%
National Airspace System
33%
Extreme weather
26%

Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 895 delay minutes reported on MQ 3824.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 963 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 363 flights under MQ 3824 in the data flew XNA to DCA. 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. 363 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 3824

For a booking, MQ 3824 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.1% on time and 0.83% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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