Carrier route record
OOORD→XNA
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Bentonville
- Flights
- 175
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to XNA sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 175 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to XNA runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 65 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 161 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.6%
Every carrier on ORD to XNA, 1,891 flights
These figures cover 175 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to XNA
SkyWest flew 175 of the 1,891 flights on ORD to XNA, about 9% of it. Its 70.8% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 100.0% to American at 66.7%. Three 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 | 1,599 | 75.7% | 67 min | 1.56% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 175 | 70.8% | 65 min | 8.00% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 9 | 66.7% | 45 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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Departure window
When SkyWest 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.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am47 flights82.6%
- 11am–2pm4 flights—
- 2pm–5pm59 flights66.1%
- 5pm–8pm24 flights—
- 8pm–5am41 flights64.7%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 64.7% on time, against 82.6% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 59 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to XNA through the year
- Jan–Mar 202643 flights62.5%
- Apr–Jun 20269 flights—
- Jul–Sep 2026123 flights71.4%
Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.8% on time across 175 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on ORD to XNA logged 43 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 9 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 123 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 70.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to XNA runs when it is late
SkyWest on ORD to XNA often beats the schedule: 50 of 161 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early50 flights31.1%
- Within 15 min64 flights39.8%
- 15–29 min late14 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late14 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights8.1%
- 2+ hours late6 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 161 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 40 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 11 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 SkyWest on ORD to XNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 4 hours 53 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 March 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
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 3,053 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Extreme weather
- 26%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 28% 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 4.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,053 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,053 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 to one.
Cancellations run at 8.00%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.8% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.6% on time across 175 flights, 9 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 175 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 SkyWest on ORD to XNA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 161 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to XNA, every carrier
- SkyWest on XNA to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to XNA82.2%
- Envoy Air on ORD to XNA75.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.