OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Nashville to Boston

942 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BNA–BOS arrive on time 71% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.0%of scheduled flights

based on 2,626 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Republic Airways
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights396
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time67%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights447
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights962
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights30
  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights791

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)30%
  • Late aircraft39%
  • 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 → BOS

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 86% on time.

  • Mornings86% on time · p90 20 min · 2,111 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 45 min · 2,340 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 75 min · 2,304 flights
  • Afternoons62% on time · p90 85 min · 867 flights
  • Overnights55% on time · p90 70 min · 405 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 79% on time.

  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 40 min · 959 flights
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 1,117 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 1,123 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 55 min · 1,207 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 60 min · 1,189 flights
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 65 min · 1,210 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 70 min · 1,222 flights
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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.