Carrier route record
MQORD→XNA
Envoy Air · Chicago to Bentonville
- Flights
- 1,599
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to XNA sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,599 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to XNA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,570 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.6%
Every carrier on ORD to XNA, 1,891 flights
These figures cover 1,599 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to XNA
Envoy flew 1,599 of the 1,891 flights on ORD to XNA, most of the route. Its 75.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 100.0% to American at 66.7%. Four 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 107 | 82.2% | 45 min | 4.67% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,599 | 75.7% | 67 min | 1.56% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 175 | 70.8% | 65 min | 8.00% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 9 | 66.7% | 45 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on ORD to XNA
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am266 flights86.7%
- 8am–11am137 flights81.3%
- 11am–2pm302 flights81.3%
- 2pm–5pm82 flights74.4%
- 5pm–8pm619 flights70.0%
- 8pm–5am193 flights66.0%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.7% of the time, against 66.0% for the overnight window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 619 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to XNA through the year
December is the weak month at 62.5% on time, against 86.0% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 155 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.2% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 73.1%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to XNA runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to XNA often beats the schedule: 589 of 1,570 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 382 late arrivals split 121 under half an hour, 114 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 147 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early589 flights37.5%
- Within 15 min599 flights38.2%
- 15–29 min late121 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late114 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late91 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late56 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,570 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
76 of 353 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 105 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at XNA.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to XNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 7 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 7 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 July 2026 | 5 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 December 2025 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 November 2025 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 26,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 25,624 reported delay minutes.
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 26,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 522 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.
The return leg runs 77.0% on time across 1,603 flights, within about a point 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 1,599 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 ORD to XNA
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 86.0% on time and December 62.5%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,570 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to XNA, every carrier
- Envoy on XNA to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to XNA82.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to XNA70.8%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.