Flight number record
MQ 3871
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Charlotte
- Route
- XNA → CLT
- Departs
- 08:55
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3871, 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 3871 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 about 55 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, MQ 3871's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 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 3871 flies
MQ 3871 flies XNA to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:55, used on 123 of 363 flights, with 08:51 (54 flights) and 09:37 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 08:55123 flights33.9%
- Departs 08:5154 flights14.9%
- Departs 09:3747 flights12.9%
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 08:55 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and MQ 3871 runs 7 points better at 91.1%. 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 3871 next to XNA to CLT
Every carrier on XNA to CLT combined arrived on time 85.9% of the time across 1,457 flights, so MQ 3871 is 5 points ahead of it. Envoy flew 627 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.3% on time. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3871thin sample | 363 | 91.1% | 55 min | 1.10% | A |
| All Envoy Air on XNA–CLT | 627 | 89.3% | 49 min | 1.75% | A |
| All carriers on XNA–CLT | 1,457 | 85.9% | 103 min | 2.40% | A |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 3871 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 3871 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 95.2% 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights92.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, MQ 3871 ranged from 86.0% on Saturday to 96.2% on Friday. 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 3871 runs when it is late
MQ 3871 often beats the schedule: 170 of 359 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early170 flights47.4%
- Within 15 min157 flights43.7%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 13 still arrived on time. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 3871
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 3 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 April 2026 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 June 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 May 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 March 2026 | 1 hour 22 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why MQ 3871 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 1,754 reported delay minutes.
- 33%Extreme weather
- 23%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 33% 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 5.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,754 delay minutes reported on MQ 3871.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% 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 754 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 363 flights under MQ 3871 in the data flew XNA to CLT. 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 3871
For a booking, MQ 3871 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.1% on time and 1.10% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to XNA, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.