Carrier route record
MQXNA→PHX
Envoy Air · Bentonville to Phoenix
- Flights
- 638
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 77%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on XNA to PHX earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 638 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's XNA to PHX record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 121 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 635 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.47%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
88.2%
Every carrier on XNA to PHX, 828 flights
These figures cover 638 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Envoy against every carrier on XNA to PHX
Envoy flew 638 of the 828 flights on XNA to PHX, most of the route. Its 89.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 88.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 89.4% to SkyWest at 50.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 638 | 89.4% | 68 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 188 | 84.6% | 48 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 50.0% | 29 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on XNA to PHX
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Departure window
When Envoy 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 638 flights.
- 5am–8am2 flights—
- 8am–11am364 flights91.7%
- 11am–2pm5 flights—
- 2pm–5pm165 flights87.2%
- 5pm–8pm100 flights87.0%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 91.7% on time for the 8am–11am window against 87.0% for 5pm–8pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 364 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on XNA to PHX through the year
Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 81.4%. July is the strongest month at 96.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 15 points. March was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 96.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 84.4%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on XNA to PHX runs when it is late
Envoy on XNA to PHX often beats the schedule: 243 of 635 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 67 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early243 flights38.3%
- Within 15 min325 flights51.2%
- 15–29 min late22 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late24 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 635 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 77 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 26 still arrived on time. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on XNA to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 14 hours 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2026 | 14 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 May 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 4,581 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,581 reported delay minutes.
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,581 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations are rare at 0.47%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is 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 3.3% 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 85.2% on time across 637 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. 638 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 Envoy on XNA to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 638 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 89.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 635 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.