Northwest Arkansas National in December 2023

89.7%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 997 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 89.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.1% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 6.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 86.6% of the time (999 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, national aviation system 25% and air carrier 19%.

On time 86.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.8%
Cancelled 0.1%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	89.7%	—	80.6%	83.1%
Arrived on time	86.1%	—	79.3%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.1%	—	1.9%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.8 min	—	17.1 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	39	19,013
Scheduled departures	997	—	14,078	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	430	43%	85.8%	-2.2 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	236	24%	89.4%	-6.3 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	75	8%	89.3%	-0.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	63	6%	58.7%	14.4 min	1.6%
AA American Airlines	62	6%	91.9%	-1.9 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	50	5%	88.0%	-6.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	39	4%	97.4%	-12.5 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	24	2%	83.3%	-0.9 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	18	2%	83.3%	13.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
XNA–DFW	Fayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth	247	83.8%	2.3 min	0.0%
XNA–ORD	Fayetteville to Chicago	137	87.6%	-7.3 min	0.0%
XNA–CLT	Fayetteville to Charlotte	122	90.2%	-6.0 min	0.0%
XNA–ATL	Fayetteville to Atlanta	114	92.1%	-4.8 min	0.0%
XNA–DEN	Fayetteville to Denver	110	86.4%	-1.6 min	0.0%
XNA–LGA	Fayetteville to New York	47	87.2%	-6.3 min	0.0%
XNA–IAH	Fayetteville to Houston	43	88.4%	-5.7 min	0.0%
XNA–LAX	Fayetteville to Los Angeles	38	76.3%	1.9 min	0.0%
XNA–DCA	Fayetteville to Washington	31	93.5%	-10.9 min	0.0%
XNA–PHX	Fayetteville to Phoenix	31	96.8%	-7.2 min	0.0%
XNA–MIA	Fayetteville to Miami	14	85.7%	3.9 min	0.0%
XNA–SFB	Fayetteville to Sanford	12	50.0%	23.2 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	18.7%	37.1%	1,222
Late-arriving aircraft	53.7%	38.8%	3,503
National Aviation System	25.4%	17.6%	1,656
Extreme weather	2.2%	6.2%	141
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

6,522 delay minutes on 138 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 December 2023?

89.7% of 997 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.