Route reliability record
PHX→XNA
Phoenix to Bentonville
- Flights
- 827
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,023 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 827 PHX to XNA flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly PHX to XNA: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Saturday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.7% of the time and Saturday flights 90.2%, against 84.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 823 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.2% on time across 637 flights
These figures cover 827 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on PHX to XNA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 637 | 85.2% | 52 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 188 | 80.3% | 44 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 50.0% | 35 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on PHX to XNA
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am363 flights84.0%
- 11am–2pm108 flights91.7%
- 2pm–5pm305 flights80.5%
- 5pm–8pm49 flights87.8%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 91.7% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 80.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter PHX 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 PHX to XNA, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 91.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 80.5%, a wide gap of 11.2 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am84.0%
- 11am–2pm91.7%
- 2–5pm80.5%
- 5–8pm87.8%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 28 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.
July is the worst month at 67.2% on time, 28 points below April, the best at 95.3%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 78.5%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,547 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,547 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 to one. The split is drawn from 6,547 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,023 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 88.2% on time across 828 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 827 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 827 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 84.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 823 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PHX to XNA questions
How often is PHX to XNA delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.0% of the 827 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 50 minutes on average.
How reliable is PHX to XNA compared with the rest of the country?
84.0% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PHX to XNA?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 91.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 80.5%, 11 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 July delays on PHX to XNA?
July is the weakest month at 67.2% on time, compared with 95.3% in April. Across the year that is 28 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 PHX — the return legseparate record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on PHX to XNA85.2%
- American Airlines on PHX to XNA80.3%
- PHX to DEN, a related route76.7%
- DFW to XNA, a related route77.9%
- PHX to LAX, a related route82.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.2%
- American Airlines on-time record80.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record50.0%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. PHX to XNA and XNA to PHX 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.