Carrier route record
MQXNA→ORD
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Chicago
- Flights
- 1,548
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 89%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on XNA to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 1,548 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on XNA to ORD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,515 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.74%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.9%
Every carrier on XNA to ORD, 1,736 flights
These figures cover 1,548 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on XNA to ORD
Envoy flew 1,548 of the 1,736 flights on XNA to ORD, most of the route. Its 75.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 80.0% to United at 0.0%. Four 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 52 | 80.0% | 60 min | 1.92% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 126 | 79.3% | 66 min | 2.38% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,548 | 75.6% | 84 min | 1.74% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 9 | 55.6% | 163 min | 0.00% | D+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 0.0% | 131 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on XNA to ORD
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 22 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–8am460 flights83.0%
- 8am–11am385 flights83.1%
- 11am–2pm72 flights70.0%
- 2pm–5pm284 flights71.6%
- 5pm–8pm344 flights61.2%
- 8pm–5am3 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.2% on time, against 83.1% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 460 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on XNA to ORD through the year
July is the worst month at 63.5% on time, 21 points below September, the best at 84.2%. 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 151 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 71.9%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
44% 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 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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. The split is drawn from 31,039 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.1% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.74% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 522 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 runs 76.2% on time across 1,545 flights, within half a point 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 1,548 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 ORD
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 84.2% on time and July 63.5%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,515 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.