Carrier route record

MQXNA→DFW

Envoy Air · Bentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 2,435
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 69%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on XNA to DFW lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,435 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on XNA to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,380 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.93%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.7%

Every carrier on XNA to DFW, 3,527 flights

These figures cover 2,435 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 DFW

Envoy flew 2,435 of the 3,527 flights on XNA to DFW, most of the route. Its 81.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.0% to American at 71.8%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on XNA to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	63	82.0%	70 min	3.17%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	2,435	81.0%	78 min	1.93%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	333	75.7%	80 min	4.80%	B−
American Airlines	696	71.8%	127 min	4.45%	C−

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 11 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–8am598 flights82.9%
8am–11am559 flights83.6%
11am–2pm229 flights85.7%
2pm–5pm486 flights80.2%
5pm–8pm393 flights74.6%
8pm–5am170 flights76.1%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.7% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 74.6%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 598 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on XNA to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, July worst

July is the worst month at 69.3% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 88.2%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 235 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.9%. 8 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 35,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
23%
Carrier
21%
Extreme weather
19%

Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 35,302 reported delay minutes.

38% 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 35,000 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 1.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 82.5% on time across 2,441 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 2,435 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.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on XNA to DFW

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 88.2% on time and July 69.3%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,380 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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