Carrier route record
AAXNA→CLT
American Airlines · Bentonville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 136
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on XNA to CLT earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.7 hours. That rests on 136 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 627 at 89.3% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, American's XNA to CLT record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 145 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 134 completed flights
Avg delay
165 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.9%
Every carrier on XNA to CLT, 1,457 flights
These figures cover 136 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 XNA to CLT
American flew 136 of the 1,457 flights on XNA to CLT, about 9% of it. Its 91.8% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 85.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 91.8% to PSA at 81.6%.
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 Airlines (this page)thin 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.
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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 136 flights.
- 5am–8am29 flights—
- 8am–11am60 flights93.2%
- 11am–2pm39 flights89.7%
- 2pm–5pm4 flights—
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 93.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
American on XNA to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202556 flights91.1%
- Oct–Dec 202563 flights93.5%
- Apr–Jun 202612 flights—
- Jul–Sep 20265 flights—
Scale runs 85% to 100%. 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 91.8% on time across 136 flights.
Split by quarter, American on XNA to CLT logged 56 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 63 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 12 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 5 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 91.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on XNA to CLT runs when it is late
American on XNA to CLT often beats the schedule: 66 of 134 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 11 late arrivals split 2 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights49.3%
- Within 15 min57 flights42.5%
- 15–29 min late2 flights1.5%
- 30–59 min late5 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 134 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 134 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for American on XNA to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 September 2025, 20 hours 17 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in September 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | 20 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 September 2025 | 2 hours | National Airspace System |
| 13 October 2025 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 October 2025 | 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 74% of the 1,809 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,332 of the 1,809 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,809 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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 costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% 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 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 85.1% on time across 135 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 136 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 XNA to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 136 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 91.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 134 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to XNA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on XNA to CLT89.3%
- PSA Airlines on XNA to CLT81.6%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.