ORD to XNA flight delays
Chicago, IL (ORD) Fayetteville, AR (XNA) · 522 miles
158 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
70.59%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.53%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
61 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
19 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.53% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
Only Envoy Air flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Flights from Chicago to Fayetteville run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Envoy Air arrived on time most often on ORD to XNA.
Every airline on ORD to XNA
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 142 | 69.34% | 2.82% | 63 min | D |
| American Airlines | 9 | 66.67% | 0% | 45 min | — |
| SkyWest Airlines | 6 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
| United Airlines | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
The return leg
XNA to ORD Fayetteville back to Chicago 74.51% on time DOther routes from Chicago
Common questions
Are flights from Chicago to Fayetteville usually delayed?
70.59% of flights on the ORD to XNA route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Chicago to Fayetteville?
Only Envoy Air appears in the published record on this route, with 142 flights and 69.34% arriving on time.
How often are ORD to XNA flights cancelled?
2.53% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 25 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When ORD to XNA flights are late, how late are they?
About 61 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ORD to XNA during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →