Carrier route record
AAXNA→PHX
American Airlines · Bentonville to Phoenix
- Flights
- 188
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on XNA to PHX earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 188 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's XNA to PHX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 188 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
88.2%
Every carrier on XNA to PHX, 828 flights
These figures cover 188 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on XNA to PHX
American flew 188 of the 828 flights on XNA to PHX, about 23% of it. Its 84.6% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 88.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 89.4% to SkyWest at 50.0%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 638 | 89.4% | 68 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 188 | 84.6% | 48 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 50.0% | 29 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 188 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's XNA to PHX record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on XNA to PHX through the year
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights81.9%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202639 flights74.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights96.7%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. 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 84.6% on time across 188 flights.
American on XNA to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 74.4%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 63 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on XNA to PHX runs when it is late
American on XNA to PHX often beats the schedule: 68 of 188 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 16 of the 29 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 4 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early68 flights36.2%
- Within 15 min91 flights48.4%
- 15–29 min late16 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late9 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.5%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 188 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 41 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 14 still arrived on time. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on XNA to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 3 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 July 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 May 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 June 2026 | 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 1,404 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,404 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 1,404 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,023 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 80.3% on time across 188 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 188 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 American on XNA to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 188 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 84.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 188 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to XNA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on XNA to PHX89.4%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.