OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Nashville to Birmingham

177 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BNA–BHM arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.2%of scheduled flights

based on 339 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel1.2%
    Flights339

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline22%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft58%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly BNA → BHM

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 76% to 80% on time.

  • Middays80% on time · p90 30 min · 234 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 30 min · 180 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 87% on time.

  • Tuesdays87% on time · p90 15 min · 61 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays87% on time · p90 15 min · 61 flights · limited
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 59 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 60 min · 63 flights · limited
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 55 min · 56 flights · limited
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 25 min · 61 flights · limited
  • Fridays68% on time · p90 45 min · 60 flights · limited
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.