Carrier route record
MQORD→XNA
Envoy Air · Chicago to Bentonville
- Flights
- 1,545
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 89%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to XNA lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four 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 1,545 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,513 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.75%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.4%
Every carrier on ORD to XNA, 1,733 flights
These figures cover 1,545 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to XNA
Envoy flew 1,545 of the 1,733 flights on ORD to XNA, most of the route. Its 76.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 76.4%. 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 | 126 | 81.7% | 47 min | 3.97% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,545 | 76.2% | 63 min | 1.75% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 52 | 69.4% | 84 min | 5.77% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 9 | 66.7% | 45 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on ORD to XNA
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–8am252 flights87.9%
- 8am–11am141 flights81.9%
- 11am–2pm282 flights79.3%
- 2pm–5pm86 flights72.1%
- 5pm–8pm597 flights70.2%
- 8pm–5am187 flights72.2%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.9% of the time, against 70.2% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 597 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. May was the busiest month here, with 152 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 74.1%. 5 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 47% of the 23,000 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 15%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 22,539 reported delay minutes.
47% 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 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.5% 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.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 75.6% on time across 1,548 flights, within half 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 1,545 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. 1,513 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 XNA81.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.