Northwest Arkansas National in March 2024

83.2%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,040 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 83.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.9% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 4.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 81.1% of the time (1,039 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 82.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.7%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from XNA in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	83.2%	—	80.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	82.9%	—	79.3%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	1.9%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.3 min	—	17.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	35	—	39	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,040	—	14,078	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	425	41%	83.5%	0.2 min	1.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	201	19%	90.0%	-7.7 min	2.0%
AA American Airlines	93	9%	62.4%	36.2 min	3.2%
9E Endeavor Air	89	9%	94.4%	-8.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	72	7%	63.9%	32.3 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	66	6%	87.9%	-2.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	56	5%	92.9%	-10.1 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	19	2%	73.7%	5.2 min	5.3%
OH PSA Airlines	19	2%	73.7%	70.7 min	5.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
XNA–DFW	Fayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth	269	71.4%	20.5 min	3.0%
XNA–ORD	Fayetteville to Chicago	163	88.3%	-5.0 min	0.6%
XNA–CLT	Fayetteville to Charlotte	124	85.5%	3.8 min	0.0%
XNA–ATL	Fayetteville to Atlanta	119	93.3%	-8.0 min	0.0%
XNA–DEN	Fayetteville to Denver	112	86.6%	-6.4 min	4.5%
XNA–LGA	Fayetteville to New York	48	83.3%	0.1 min	0.0%
XNA–LAX	Fayetteville to Los Angeles	40	82.5%	-5.1 min	0.0%
XNA–PHX	Fayetteville to Phoenix	32	93.8%	-14.8 min	0.0%
XNA–DCA	Fayetteville to Washington	31	100.0%	-12.0 min	0.0%
XNA–MSP	Fayetteville to Minneapolis	26	96.2%	-13.3 min	0.0%
XNA–AZA	Fayetteville to Phoenix	9	88.9%	-0.4 min	0.0%
XNA–BNA	Fayetteville to Nashville	9	77.8%	21.1 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	31.5%	32.1%	4,140
Late-arriving aircraft	41.9%	42.1%	5,510
National Aviation System	15.0%	21.4%	1,977
Extreme weather	11.4%	4.2%	1,504
Security	0.1%	0.2%	11

13,142 delay minutes on 163 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 March 2024?

83.2% of 1,040 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.