Route profile
DFW→XNA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Dallas–Fort Worth to Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers, 280 miles.
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Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 37% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 10,402 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
DFW → XNA arrives on time 78.7% of the time; the return trip, XNA → DFW, arrives on time 77.0% of the time.
DFW → XNA spends 27.1 minutes on the ground on a 280-mile trip: 19.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at DFW and 7.6 minutes from touchdown to gate at XNA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
The airline matters unusually much on this route, a wider carrier-to-carrier gap than 92% of 2,692 comparable routes.
Envoy Air arrived on time 82.5% of the time, against 63.3% for American Airlines, flying the exact same route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 2,692 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where DFW to XNA differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
DFW to XNA struggles most at 3 PM: 70.7% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 5.2 points behind the 75.9% on routes of similar length at the same hour.
DFW to XNA is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 6 PM: 74.4% arrive on time, 4.7 points ahead of the 69.7% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 5.8 points.
In September, DFW to XNA runs 5.5 points below routes of similar length, 77.3% on time to 82.8%. Against all other routes the gap is 5.1 points.
American Airlines’ flights on DFW to XNA arrive on time 63.3% of the time, 11.5 points below the 74.8% it manages on its routes of similar length. Against all other routes the gap is 11.8 points.
Envoy Air does better on DFW to XNA than on its routes of similar length: 82.5% on time here, 77.1% there, 5.4 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 3.5 points.
DFW to XNA against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
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| Hour: 3 PM departures | 70.7% | routes of similar length | 75.9% | −5.2 pts | 345 here, 33,944 there |
| Hour: 6 PM departures | 74.4% | routes of similar length | 69.7% | +4.7 pts | 898 here, 38,923 there |
| Month: September | 77.3% | routes of similar length | 82.8% | −5.5 pts | 824 here, 52,526 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 63.3% | routes of similar length | 74.8% | −11.5 pts | 1,848 here, 71,400 there |
| Airline: Envoy Air | 82.5% | routes of similar length | 77.1% | +5.4 pts | 7,537 here, 27,632 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 280 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why DFW → XNA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
DFW → XNA cancelled 215 of 10,402 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 48. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 80.0% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 60 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 215 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
172 cancellations, 80.0% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
26 cancellations, 12.1% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
17 cancellations, 7.9% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
215 coded cancellations were recorded on DFW → XNA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
44 min late
against a median of 5 min early
Percentiles over 10,402 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at XNA after arriving from DFW.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 36% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 21% | High risk |
| 60 min | 14% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.4% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.5% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 2.07% of the time and diverts 0.24% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 10,162 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 44 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 10,402 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
DFW → XNA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 89.1% of the time, against 70.3% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 18.8 percentage points.
By day and hour
On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (DFW).
Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 7.7 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 2.4 points.
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On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time
- 60–64
- 65–69
- 70–74
- 75–79
- 80–84
- 85–89
- 90–94
- Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.
No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights.
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| Hour | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 7 AM–8 AM | 87.0% on time157 flights | 90.7% on time130 flights | 90.9% on time123 flights | 94.0% on time154 flights | 90.6% on time156 flights | 90.2% on time139 flights | 88.9% on time138 flights |
| 8 AM–9 AM | 87.3% on time151 flights | 88.4% on time139 flights | 88.7% on time145 flights | 89.1% on time150 flights | 87.8% on time149 flights | 85.1% on time151 flights | 89.9% on time151 flights |
| 9 AM–10 AM | 9 flights, too few to score | 11 flights, too few to score | 11 flights, too few to score | 11 flights, too few to score | 9 flights, too few to score | 10 flights, too few to score | 8 flights, too few to score |
| 10 AM–11 AM | 89.7% on time160 flights | 90.7% on time154 flights | 84.0% on time121 flights | 88.7% on time161 flights | 88.7% on time161 flights | 69 flights, too few to score | 84.8% on time160 flights |
| 11 AM–12 PM | 0 flights, too few to score | 1 flight, too few to score | 1 flight, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score |
| 12 PM–1 PM | 80.3% on time158 flights | 92.1% on time143 flights | 82.8% on time159 flights | 87.0% on time158 flights | 87.7% on time158 flights | 83.2% on time134 flights | 80.5% on time157 flights |
| 1 PM–2 PM | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score | 1 flight, too few to score | 5 flights, too few to score | 0 flights, too few to score |
| 2 PM–3 PM | 73.3% on time154 flights | 81.6% on time139 flights | 115 flights, too few to score | 79.9% on time154 flights | 79.6% on time152 flights | 75 flights, too few to score | 74.0% on time157 flights |
| 3 PM–4 PM | 52 flights, too few to score | 44 flights, too few to score | 54 flights, too few to score | 47 flights, too few to score | 55 flights, too few to score | 60 flights, too few to score | 47 flights, too few to score |
| 4 PM–5 PM | 67.2% on time139 flights | 72.0% on time134 flights | 78.8% on time133 flights | 69.6% on time129 flights | 68.0% on time131 flights | 118 flights, too few to score | 66.1% on time132 flights |
| 5 PM–6 PM | 55 flights, too few to score | 55 flights, too few to score | 53 flights, too few to score | 53 flights, too few to score | 59 flights, too few to score | 56 flights, too few to score | 56 flights, too few to score |
| 6 PM–7 PM | 74.6% on time134 flights | 77.0% on time132 flights | 75.2% on time126 flights | 74.4% on time136 flights | 79.7% on time133 flights | 73.6% on time122 flights | 66.7% on time137 flights |
| 7 PM–8 PM | 50 flights, too few to score | 64 flights, too few to score | 50 flights, too few to score | 48 flights, too few to score | 50 flights, too few to score | 48 flights, too few to score | 49 flights, too few to score |
| 8 PM–9 PM | 108 flights, too few to score | 82 flights, too few to score | 104 flights, too few to score | 116 flights, too few to score | 108 flights, too few to score | 104 flights, too few to score | 116 flights, too few to score |
| 9 PM–10 PM | 63.6% on time122 flights | 113 flights, too few to score | 71.7% on time121 flights | 114 flights, too few to score | 68.1% on time123 flights | 119 flights, too few to score | 118 flights, too few to score |
| 10 PM–11 PM | 73.7% on time120 flights | 69 flights, too few to score | 98 flights, too few to score | 73.4% on time144 flights | 67.8% on time122 flights | 84 flights, too few to score | 70.2% on time147 flights |
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 90.3% on time from 997 flights
- 8 AM: 88.0% on time from 1,036 flights
- 9 AM: too few flights to score
- 10 AM: 87.0% on time from 986 flights
- 11 AM: too few flights to score
- 12 PM: 84.7% on time from 1,067 flights
- 1 PM: too few flights to score
- 2 PM: 78.6% on time from 946 flights
- 3 PM: 70.7% on time from 359 flights
- 4 PM: 71.1% on time from 916 flights
- 5 PM: 70.1% on time from 387 flights
- 6 PM: 74.4% on time from 920 flights
- 7 PM: 72.7% on time from 359 flights
- 8 PM: 73.8% on time from 738 flights
- 9 PM: 67.9% on time from 830 flights
- 10 PM: 72.9% on time from 784 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why DFW → XNA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DFW → XNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on DFW → XNA, at 50.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 89.1% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 70.3%.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
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| Envoy Air | 7,690 | 82.5% | 1.74% | -6 min | 5.1% |
| American Airlines | 1,904 | 63.3% | 2.68% | 1 min | 17.2% |
| PSA Airlines | 681 | 79.3% | 3.96% | -7 min | 8.6% |
Envoy Air flew 74.8% of the 10,275 flights listed. PSA Airlines cancelled 3.96% of its flights here against 1.74% for Envoy Air.
Envoy Air arrived on time 19.2 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MQ3693 Envoy Air | 10:37 PM | 609 | 73.9% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 78.1%
- Feb: 84.1%
- Mar: 77.7%
- Apr: 77.2%
- May: 73.1%
- Jun: 71.3%
- Jul: 73.8%
- Aug: 79.2%
- Sep: 77.3%
- Oct: 84.9%
- Nov: 87.8%
- Dec: 83.1%
June is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 16.5 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 81.7% from 254 flights
- August 2023: 86.7% from 265 flights
- September 2023: 82.4% from 245 flights
- October 2023: 86.4% from 261 flights
- November 2023: 92.3% from 247 flights
- December 2023: 91.1% from 248 flights
- January 2024: 71.5% from 250 flights
- February 2024: 84.2% from 241 flights
- March 2024: 72.5% from 270 flights
- April 2024: 74.6% from 261 flights
- May 2024: 67.1% from 269 flights
- June 2024: 75.0% from 260 flights
- July 2024: 67.2% from 296 flights
- August 2024: 79.8% from 293 flights
- September 2024: 80.6% from 284 flights
- October 2024: 89.8% from 295 flights
- November 2024: 89.5% from 280 flights
- December 2024: 79.7% from 292 flights
- January 2025: 79.9% from 281 flights
- February 2025: 81.6% from 246 flights
- March 2025: 76.4% from 312 flights
- April 2025: 74.8% from 313 flights
- May 2025: 72.8% from 307 flights
- June 2025: 71.8% from 292 flights
- July 2025: 78.1% from 294 flights
- August 2025: 71.2% from 282 flights
- September 2025: 69.9% from 301 flights
- October 2025: 78.6% from 296 flights
- November 2025: 82.1% from 287 flights
- December 2025: 79.6% from 291 flights
- January 2026: 82.5% from 274 flights
- February 2026: 86.3% from 262 flights
- March 2026: 83.6% from 316 flights
- April 2026: 81.8% from 303 flights
- May 2026: 78.4% from 317 flights
- June 2026: 67.6% from 309 flights
- July 2026: 69.4% from 308 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 77.4% against 79.4% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.0 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 10,402 DFW → XNA flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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