Route reliability record
XNA→DFW
Bentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 3,537
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 280 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 3,537 XNA to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 2,370 at 83.1% on time.
Best time to fly XNA to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 84.8% of the time and Tuesday flights 85.2%, against 79.9% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,441 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.46%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.1% on time across 2,370 flights
These figures cover 3,537 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on XNA to DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 71.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 812 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 2,370 | 83.1% | 77 min | 1.81% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 63 | 82.0% | 70 min | 3.17% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 292 | 75.5% | 74 min | 4.79% | B− |
| American Airlines | 812 | 71.5% | 119 min | 3.45% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Bentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth
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 → DFWBentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 81.6% | 83.1% | 1.81% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 2. XNA → DFWBentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 69.0% | 71.5% | 3.45% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
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 15 points, against 12 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am949 flights84.8%
- 8am–11am697 flights83.1%
- 11am–2pm427 flights81.3%
- 2pm–5pm648 flights78.5%
- 5pm–8pm657 flights70.2%
- 8pm–5am159 flights77.1%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.8% of the time, against 70.2% for the evening window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 949 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter XNA to DFW 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 DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 84.8% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 70.2%, a wide gap of 14.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am84.8%
- 8–11am83.1%
- 11am–2pm81.3%
- 2–5pm78.5%
- 5–8pm70.2%
- 8pm–5am77.1%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 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.
June is the worst month at 69.0% on time, 17 points below February, the best at 86.2%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 317 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.4%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 63,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 15%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 62,502 reported delay minutes.
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 63,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.46% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.9% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 280 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 77.9% on time across 3,541 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 3,537 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 DFW 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. February runs 86.2% on time and June 69.0%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 3,441 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
XNA to DFW questions
How often is XNA to DFW delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.1% of the 3,537 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on XNA to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 83.1% on time across 2,370 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 71.5%, a gap of 12 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 DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 84.8% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 70.2%, 15 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 June delays on XNA to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 69.0% on time, compared with 86.2% in February. Across the year that is 17 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
- DFW to XNA — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on XNA to DFW83.1%
- PSA Airlines on XNA to DFW75.5%
- American Airlines on XNA to DFW71.5%
- XNA to ORD, a related route77.3%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- XNA to CLT, a related route85.9%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.1%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record82.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.5%
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. XNA to DFW and DFW 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.