Carrier route record
MQXNA→CLT
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 627
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 42%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 627 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's XNA to CLT record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 615 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.75%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
86.3%
Every carrier on XNA to CLT, 1,483 flights
These figures cover 627 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on XNA to CLT
Envoy flew 627 of the 1,483 flights on XNA to CLT, about 42% of it. Its 88.6% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 86.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 88.8% to PSA at 83.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 207 | 88.8% | 213 min | 0.48% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 627 | 88.6% | 49 min | 1.75% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 649 | 83.2% | 121 min | 2.62% | B |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on XNA to CLT
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am88 flights94.1%
- 8am–11am429 flights90.5%
- 11am–2pm7 flights—
- 2pm–5pm17 flights—
- 5pm–8pm86 flights77.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.1% of the time, against 77.9% for the evening window. That is 16 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 429 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on XNA to CLT through the year
Delays peak in May, when the on-time rate falls to 80.4%. January is the strongest month at 94.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 14 points. March was the busiest month here, with 83 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.9%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy 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 3,456 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 20%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,456 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,456 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.
Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.16%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.8% on time across 627 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 627 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 Envoy on XNA to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 627 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 88.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 615 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to CLT, every carrier
- Envoy on CLT to XNA, the return leg
- American Airlines on XNA to CLT88.8%
- PSA Airlines on XNA to CLT83.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.