Northwest Arkansas National in September 2023

81.6%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,017 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 81.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.0% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 1.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 81.5% of the time (1,016 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 79.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.1%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from XNA in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	81.6%	—	80.6%	80.5%
Arrived on time	79.0%	—	79.3%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.9%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.3 min	—	17.1 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	34	—	39	18,978
Scheduled departures	1,017	—	14,078	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	415	41%	76.6%	8.7 min	0.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	255	25%	80.8%	7.2 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	84	8%	94.0%	-7.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	60	6%	88.3%	-6.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	59	6%	66.1%	13.5 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	55	5%	74.5%	-1.1 min	10.9%
OH PSA Airlines	39	4%	71.8%	18.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	30	3%	76.7%	10.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	18	2%	77.8%	-0.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	2	0%	100.0%	-31.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
XNA–DFW	Fayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth	246	69.9%	17.3 min	0.4%
XNA–ORD	Fayetteville to Chicago	162	79.6%	8.4 min	0.0%
XNA–ATL	Fayetteville to Atlanta	142	91.5%	-7.3 min	0.0%
XNA–CLT	Fayetteville to Charlotte	117	83.8%	2.8 min	0.0%
XNA–DEN	Fayetteville to Denver	107	81.3%	2.9 min	0.0%
XNA–LGA	Fayetteville to New York	51	78.4%	-3.0 min	11.8%
XNA–LAX	Fayetteville to Los Angeles	38	84.2%	10.8 min	0.0%
XNA–PHX	Fayetteville to Phoenix	30	86.7%	-1.1 min	0.0%
XNA–DCA	Fayetteville to Washington	25	76.0%	1.8 min	0.0%
XNA–IAH	Fayetteville to Houston	25	68.0%	22.5 min	0.0%
XNA–VPS	Fayetteville to Valparaiso	22	95.5%	-16.2 min	0.0%
XNA–MSP	Fayetteville to Minneapolis	14	78.6%	-3.5 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	27.5%	36.4%	3,635
Late-arriving aircraft	44.4%	38.3%	5,859
National Aviation System	19.4%	19.9%	2,566
Extreme weather	8.1%	5.1%	1,064
Security	0.6%	0.2%	73

13,197 delay minutes on 204 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left XNA on time in September 2023?

81.6% of 1,017 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for XNA · methodology · corrections.