Route reliability record
XNA→CLT
Bentonville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,457
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 754 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 1,457 XNA to CLT flights, of which Envoy Air flew 627 at 89.3% on time.
Best time to fly XNA to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 90.1%, against 85.9% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,418 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.40%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
89.3% on time across 627 flights
These figures cover 1,457 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 XNA to CLT
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 89.3% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 81.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 694 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 136 | 91.8% | 165 min | 0.74% | A+ |
| Envoy Air | 627 | 89.3% | 49 min | 1.75% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 694 | 81.6% | 126 min | 3.31% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on XNA to CLT
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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Bentonville to Charlotte
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. XNA → CLTBentonville to Charlotte | Envoy Air | 87.7% | 89.3% | 1.75% | 5am–8am, Wed | MQ 3871 08:55 |
| 2. XNA → CLTBentonville to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 78.9% | 81.6% | 3.31% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
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 20 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am211 flights93.7%
- 8am–11am491 flights91.7%
- 11am–2pm394 flights84.1%
- 2pm–5pm84 flights79.0%
- 5pm–8pm277 flights74.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.7% of the time, against 74.1% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 491 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter XNA to CLT 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 XNA to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 93.7% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 74.1%, a wide gap of 19.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am93.7%
- 8–11am91.7%
- 11am–2pm84.1%
- 2–5pm79.0%
- 5–8pm74.1%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 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 75.2% on time, 18 points below October, the best at 93.0%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 143 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.9%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 21,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 20,554 reported delay minutes.
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 754 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 81.0% on time across 1,456 flights, 5 points below 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,457 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 93.0% on time and July 75.2%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,418 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
XNA to CLT questions
How often is XNA to CLT delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.1% of the 1,457 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on XNA to CLT?
Envoy Air leads at 89.3% on time across 627 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 81.6%, a gap of 8 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on XNA to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 93.7% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 74.1%, 20 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 XNA to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 75.2% on time, compared with 93.0% in October. Across the year that is 18 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
- CLT to XNA — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- American Airlines on XNA to CLT91.8%
- Envoy Air on XNA to CLT89.3%
- PSA Airlines on XNA to CLT81.6%
- XNA to DFW, a related route79.9%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- XNA to ORD, a related route77.3%
- American Airlines on-time record91.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record89.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record81.6%
- 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. XNA to CLT and CLT to XNA 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.