Route reliability record
DFW→XNA
Dallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville
- Flights
- 3,541
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 280 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route 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 3,541 DFW to XNA flights, of which Envoy Air flew 2,375 at 84.0% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to XNA: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.6% of the time and Tuesday flights 83.5%, against 77.9% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,452 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
84.0% on time across 2,375 flights
These figures cover 3,541 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to XNA
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 60.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 812 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 2,375 | 84.0% | 53 min | 1.81% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 63 | 77.0% | 50 min | 3.17% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 291 | 75.1% | 68 min | 4.47% | B− |
| American Airlines | 812 | 60.8% | 94 min | 3.08% | D− |
American Airlines cancels 3.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → XNADallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville | Envoy Air | 82.5% | 84.0% | 1.81% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
| 2. DFW → XNADallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville | American Airlines | 58.9% | 60.8% | 3.08% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 23 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am329 flights89.6%
- 8am–11am646 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm389 flights84.3%
- 2pm–5pm724 flights74.1%
- 5pm–8pm623 flights72.3%
- 8pm–5am830 flights72.3%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.6% of the time, against 72.3% for the overnight window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 830 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to XNA by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to XNA, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 89.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 72.3%, a wide gap of 17.3 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am89.6%
- 8–11am84.6%
- 11am–2pm84.3%
- 2–5pm74.1%
- 5–8pm72.3%
- 8pm–5am72.3%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 19 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 67.6% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 86.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 317 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.5%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 54,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 54,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 54,041 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.34% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.7% 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.
At 280 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 79.9% on time across 3,537 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 3,541 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in XNA after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 86.3% on time and June 67.6%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 3,452 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to XNA questions
How often is DFW to XNA delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.1% of the 3,541 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to XNA?
Envoy Air leads at 84.0% on time across 2,375 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 60.8%, a gap of 23 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to XNA?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 89.6% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 72.3%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to XNA?
June is the weakest month at 67.6% on time, compared with 86.3% in February. Across the year that is 19 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to XNA84.0%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to XNA75.1%
- American Airlines on DFW to XNA60.8%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ORD to XNA, a related route75.6%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record84.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record77.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.1%
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to XNA and XNA to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.