On-Time Report

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Airport month · May 2024

Northwest Arkansas National in May 2024

75.4%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,152 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 75.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.3% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 2.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 71.2% of the time (1,152 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, national aviation system 27% and air carrier 19%.

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

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierXNA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time75.4%—80.6%73.4%
Arrived on time73.3%—79.3%72.3%
Cancelled1.5%—1.9%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)21.9 min—17.1 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day38—3920,325
Scheduled departures1,152—14,078609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air46040%67.8%26.4 min2.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines22720%75.8%10.6 min1.3%
9E Endeavor Air14012%88.6%-7.5 min0.7%
G4 Allegiant Air827%81.7%6.5 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines746%83.8%2.9 min0.0%
AA American Airlines635%55.6%41.6 min6.3%
YX Republic Airline615%80.3%11.6 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines192%57.9%41.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines171%41.2%25.7 min0.0%
UA United Airlines91%55.6%22.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
XNA–DFWFayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth27060.0%39.8 min4.4%
XNA–ORDFayetteville to Chicago17375.7%9.8 min2.3%
XNA–ATLFayetteville to Atlanta14986.6%-1.0 min0.0%
XNA–CLTFayetteville to Charlotte12369.9%20.8 min0.0%
XNA–DENFayetteville to Denver11069.1%20.2 min0.0%
XNA–LGAFayetteville to New York8483.3%3.7 min1.2%
XNA–MSPFayetteville to Minneapolis4386.0%-4.1 min0.0%
XNA–LAXFayetteville to Los Angeles4062.5%19.6 min0.0%
XNA–DCAFayetteville to Washington3171.0%6.0 min0.0%
XNA–PHXFayetteville to Phoenix3187.1%14.7 min0.0%
XNA–IAHFayetteville to Houston2181.0%2.1 min0.0%
XNA–VPSFayetteville to Valparaiso2185.7%2.1 min0.0%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier18.8%29.8%4,954
Late-arriving aircraft40.0%43.0%10,504
National Aviation System26.5%20.1%6,953
Extreme weather14.7%7.0%3,869
Security0.0%0.1%7
26,287 delay minutes on 287 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left XNA on time in May 2024?

75.4% of 1,152 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.