Carrier route record
OOXNA→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Bentonville to Chicago
- Flights
- 175
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on XNA to ORD lands a B−, 2 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 175 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest 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
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 162 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.3%
Every carrier on XNA to ORD, 1,895 flights
These figures cover 175 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on XNA to ORD
SkyWest flew 175 of the 1,895 flights on XNA to ORD, about 9% of it. Its 79.6% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.6% to United at 0.0%. Three 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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 175 | 79.6% | 71 min | 5.71% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 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+ |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am65 flights91.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm47 flights74.4%
- 2pm–5pm4 flights—
- 5pm–8pm59 flights70.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.8% of the time, against 70.4% for the evening window. That is 21 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 65 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on XNA to ORD through the year
- Jan–Mar 202643 flights78.0%
- Apr–Jun 20269 flights—
- Jul–Sep 2026123 flights79.5%
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.6% on time across 175 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on XNA to ORD logged 43 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 9 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 123 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 79.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on XNA to ORD runs when it is late
SkyWest on XNA to ORD often beats the schedule: 41 of 162 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early41 flights25.3%
- Within 15 min88 flights54.3%
- 15–29 min late8 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late10 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights6.2%
- 2+ hours late5 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 162 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 10 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 SkyWest on XNA to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 5 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Four of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 July 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 July 2026 | 2 hours | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 2,345 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,345 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 2,345 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 91.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.71%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.3% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.8% on time across 175 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 175 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 SkyWest on XNA to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.71% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 162 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to ORD, every carrier
- SkyWest on ORD to XNA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on XNA to ORD80.6%
- Envoy Air on XNA to ORD77.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.