Carrier route record
AAPHX→XNA
American Airlines · Phoenix to Bentonville
- Flights
- 188
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PHX to XNA lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 188 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on PHX 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
80.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 188 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.0%
Every carrier on PHX to XNA, 827 flights
These figures cover 188 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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
American against every carrier on PHX to XNA
American flew 188 of the 827 flights on PHX to XNA, about 23% of it. Its 80.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.2% to SkyWest at 50.0%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 637 | 85.2% | 52 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 188 | 80.3% | 44 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 50.0% | 35 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 188 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's PHX to XNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 80.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on PHX to XNA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights80.7%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202639 flights74.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.6%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 80.3% on time across 188 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on PHX to XNA held fairly steady: 80.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 74.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PHX to XNA runs when it is late
American on PHX to XNA often beats the schedule: 66 of 188 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 21 of the 37 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 6 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights35.1%
- Within 15 min85 flights45.2%
- 15–29 min late21 flights11.2%
- 30–59 min late10 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 188 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PHX to XNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 3 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 1 hour 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 August 2026 | 1 hour 13 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 1,609 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,609 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 to one. The split is drawn from 1,609 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 80.3% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 84.6% on time across 188 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. 188 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 American on PHX to XNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 188 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 80.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 188 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to XNA, every carrier
- American on XNA to PHX, the return leg
- Envoy Air on PHX to XNA85.2%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.