Flight number record
MQ 3824
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Washington
- Route
- XNA → DCA
- Departs
- 06:45
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, MQ 3824's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
33 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 3824 flies
MQ 3824 flies XNA to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:45, used on 63 of 362 flights, with 07:15 (46 flights) and 06:00 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 06:4563 flights17.4%
- Departs 07:1546 flights12.7%
- Departs 06:0038 flights10.5%
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 06:45 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 2 points better at 91.6%. 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 3824 next to XNA to DCA
Every carrier on XNA to DCA combined arrived on time 91.7% of the time across 364 flights, so MQ 3824 is about level with it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3824thin sample | 362 | 91.6% | 33 min | 0.83% | A+ |
| All Envoy Air on XNA–DCAthin sample | 364 | 91.7% | 33 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All carriers on XNA–DCAthin sample | 364 | 91.7% | 33 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | 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, 93.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights93.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, MQ 3824 did best on Saturday at 98.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 3824 runs when it is late
MQ 3824 often beats the schedule: 186 of 359 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 21 of the 30 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 2 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early186 flights51.8%
- Within 15 min143 flights39.8%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.3%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 7 still arrived on time. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 3824
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 June 2026, 3 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 June 2026 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 47 minutes | Carrier |
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 983 reported delay minutes.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 39%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 983 delay minutes reported on MQ 3824.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, below the national 1.89% 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 8.3% 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.
Every one of the 362 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. 362 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: 91.6% on time and 0.83% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) 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.