Carrier route record
MQXNA→ORD
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Chicago
- Flights
- 1,603
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on XNA to ORD lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,603 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,571 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.68%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.3%
Every carrier on XNA to ORD, 1,895 flights
These figures cover 1,603 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on XNA to ORD
Envoy flew 1,603 of the 1,895 flights on XNA to ORD, most of the route. Its 77.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 107 | 80.6% | 66 min | 2.80% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 175 | 79.6% | 71 min | 5.71% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,603 | 77.0% | 88 min | 1.68% | 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
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am481 flights85.2%
- 8am–11am386 flights83.6%
- 11am–2pm71 flights69.6%
- 2pm–5pm304 flights72.7%
- 5pm–8pm301 flights64.7%
- 8pm–5am60 flights58.2%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.2% on time, against 85.2% for the 5am–8am 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 481 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on XNA to ORD through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 84.2% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 155 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 81.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 73.8%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on XNA to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on XNA to ORD often beats the schedule: 576 of 1,571 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 361 late arrivals split 97 under half an hour, 99 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 165 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early576 flights36.7%
- Within 15 min634 flights40.4%
- 15–29 min late97 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late99 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late93 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late72 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,571 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 309 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 93 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on XNA to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 June 2026, 15 hours 46 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2026 | 15 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 May 2026 | 14 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 May 2026 | 13 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 May 2026 | 13 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 May 2026 | 9 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 32,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 32,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 31,816 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 85.2% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.68% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The return leg runs 75.7% on time across 1,599 flights, within about 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 1,603 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 March 68.6%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of March before you think about anything else. 1,571 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to XNA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on XNA to ORD80.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on XNA to ORD79.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.