Carrier route record

MQDFW→XNA

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville

Flights: 2,441
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 69%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on DFW to XNA lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,441 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to XNA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,387 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.97%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.2%

Every carrier on DFW to XNA, 3,532 flights

These figures cover 2,441 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DFW to XNA

Envoy flew 2,441 of the 3,532 flights on DFW to XNA, most of the route. Its 82.5% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.5% to American at 62.8%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to XNA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	2,441	82.5%	57 min	1.97%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	332	78.2%	77 min	4.52%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	63	77.0%	50 min	3.17%	B−
American Airlines	696	62.8%	105 min	4.17%	D−

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am171 flights94.5%
8am–11am507 flights87.9%
11am–2pm299 flights84.5%
2pm–5pm478 flights80.5%
5pm–8pm407 flights76.9%
8pm–5am579 flights78.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.5% of the time, against 76.9% for the evening window. That is 18 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 579 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to XNA through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, June worst

June is the worst month at 69.9% on time, 21 points below February, the best at 90.9%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 236 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.4%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 24,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Extreme weather
19%
National Airspace System
19%
Carrier
17%

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 monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 23,890 reported delay minutes.

46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 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 81.0% on time across 2,435 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 2,441 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.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on DFW to XNA

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.9% on time and June 69.9%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,387 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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