Northwest Arkansas National in November 2023

89.5%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 986 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 89.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.1% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 3.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 88.7% of the time (986 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 23%.

On time 87.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.9%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	89.5%	—	80.6%	86.0%
Arrived on time	87.1%	—	79.3%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.9%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.7 min	—	17.1 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	39	18,793
Scheduled departures	986	—	14,078	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	465	47%	85.2%	-1.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	216	22%	91.7%	-7.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	73	7%	71.2%	18.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	59	6%	94.9%	-11.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	57	6%	96.5%	-14.9 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	55	6%	94.5%	-8.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	26	3%	65.4%	11.7 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	18	2%	94.4%	-4.8 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	17	2%	94.1%	-9.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
XNA–DFW	Fayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth	247	84.6%	0.3 min	0.0%
XNA–ORD	Fayetteville to Chicago	155	87.7%	-5.1 min	0.0%
XNA–CLT	Fayetteville to Charlotte	120	85.0%	-0.1 min	0.0%
XNA–ATL	Fayetteville to Atlanta	116	95.7%	-13.1 min	0.0%
XNA–DEN	Fayetteville to Denver	94	92.6%	-6.9 min	0.0%
XNA–LGA	Fayetteville to New York	51	96.1%	-10.2 min	0.0%
XNA–LAX	Fayetteville to Los Angeles	38	71.1%	12.1 min	0.0%
XNA–PHX	Fayetteville to Phoenix	30	80.0%	-1.6 min	0.0%
XNA–DCA	Fayetteville to Washington	29	93.1%	-10.2 min	0.0%
XNA–IAH	Fayetteville to Houston	23	87.0%	-10.1 min	0.0%
XNA–MSP	Fayetteville to Minneapolis	15	93.3%	-5.2 min	0.0%
XNA–BNA	Fayetteville to Nashville	13	76.9%	16.7 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

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

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	30.3%	42.5%	1,902
Late-arriving aircraft	41.7%	37.3%	2,616
National Aviation System	22.5%	16.2%	1,411
Extreme weather	5.2%	3.7%	327
Security	0.4%	0.3%	24

6,280 delay minutes on 127 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 November 2023?

89.5% of 986 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.