On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Northwest Arkansas National in April 2025

75.5%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,040 domestic departures from Northwest Arkansas National (XNA). 75.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.4% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so XNA departures were 5.1 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,078 departures with 84.0% leaving on time: a change of −8.5 points, with flights down 4%.

Flights arriving at XNA that month were on time 74.3% of the time (1,040 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, national aviation system 25% and extreme weather 19%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024XNA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time75.5%84.0%80.6%80.6%
Arrived on time73.4%82.9%79.3%79.5%
Cancelled2.4%0.6%1.9%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)21.5 min13.5 min17.1 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day35363919,465
Scheduled departures1,0401,07814,078583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air48146%70.9%18.6 min3.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines19018%81.6%5.0 min0.0%
AA American Airlines11511%67.0%28.0 min3.5%
OH PSA Airlines868%72.1%10.7 min4.7%
G4 Allegiant Air666%71.2%20.1 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline606%85.0%-2.4 min0.0%
UA United Airlines303%73.3%20.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines121%66.7%-1.7 min8.3%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
XNA–DFWFayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth31268.9%25.4 min4.5%
XNA–CLTFayetteville to Charlotte15074.7%8.7 min2.0%
XNA–ORDFayetteville to Chicago14068.6%23.5 min3.6%
XNA–DENFayetteville to Denver10170.3%17.3 min1.0%
XNA–PHXFayetteville to Phoenix6083.3%0.8 min0.0%
XNA–LGAFayetteville to New York5683.9%-1.4 min0.0%
XNA–LAXFayetteville to Los Angeles3863.2%12.9 min0.0%
XNA–IAHFayetteville to Houston3190.3%-4.6 min0.0%
XNA–DCAFayetteville to Washington3090.0%-13.2 min3.3%
XNA–PHLFayetteville to Philadelphia3060.0%27.8 min3.3%
XNA–SLCFayetteville to Salt Lake City30100.0%-10.0 min0.0%
XNA–VPSFayetteville to Valparaiso1090.0%-9.0 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier16.2%32.7%3,680
Late-arriving aircraft39.4%39.4%8,916
National Aviation System24.8%22.2%5,607
Extreme weather19.4%5.5%4,400
Security0.2%0.2%50
22,653 delay minutes on 250 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 April 2025?

75.5% of 1,040 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 84.0% of 1,078 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 75.5% and 2.4% in April 2025.

Provenance

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