On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Northwest Arkansas National in January 2025

78.6%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 933 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 78.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.8% reached their destination on time; 3.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 0.7 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 979 departures with 73.6% leaving on time: a change of +5.0 points, with flights down 5%.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 76.1% of the time (932 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 37%, air carrier 24% and late-arriving aircraft 20%.

Every scheduled departure from XNA in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time78.6%73.6%80.6%79.3%
Arrived on time75.8%66.7%79.3%78.6%
Cancelled3.9%3.4%1.9%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.7 min24.4 min17.1 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day31333917,992
Scheduled departures93397914,078539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air47351%76.7%7.4 min4.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines16217%74.7%10.5 min0.6%
AA American Airlines9911%71.7%40.5 min7.1%
YX Republic Airline9210%75.0%-5.6 min6.5%
G4 Allegiant Air526%76.9%3.9 min0.0%
UA United Airlines313%80.6%6.5 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines202%80.0%-4.5 min10.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines40%50.0%17.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
XNA–DFWFayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth28269.1%29.1 min6.0%
XNA–CLTFayetteville to Charlotte14879.1%-2.3 min4.7%
XNA–ORDFayetteville to Chicago14576.6%5.1 min2.1%
XNA–DENFayetteville to Denver9671.9%10.4 min0.0%
XNA–PHXFayetteville to Phoenix6195.1%-6.7 min1.6%
XNA–LGAFayetteville to New York5778.9%-6.0 min5.3%
XNA–LAXFayetteville to Los Angeles3384.8%2.9 min0.0%
XNA–DCAFayetteville to Washington3177.4%-6.5 min9.7%
XNA–PHLFayetteville to Philadelphia2080.0%-4.5 min10.0%
XNA–SFBFayetteville to Sanford1190.9%-21.9 min0.0%
XNA–VPSFayetteville to Valparaiso1090.0%-14.8 min0.0%
XNA–BNAFayetteville to Nashville988.9%-2.0 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier24.4%36.2%4,375
Late-arriving aircraft20.1%34.7%3,600
National Aviation System18.2%19.9%3,272
Extreme weather37.2%9.1%6,669
Security0.1%0.2%24
17,940 delay minutes on 190 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 January 2025?

78.6% of 933 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 73.6% of 979 departures left on time and 3.4% were cancelled, against 78.6% and 3.9% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.