OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Nashville to New York

765 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BNA–JFK arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,585 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-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel2.9%
    Flights1,048
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights30
  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel4.3%
    Flights507

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)38%
  • Late aircraft32%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly BNA → JFK

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 · 1,611 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 40 min · 2,562 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 75 min · 932 flights
  • Evenings60% on time · p90 80 min · 945 flights
  • Overnights42% on time · p90 120 min · 148 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 79% on time.

  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 40 min · 868 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 40 min · 882 flights
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 55 min · 866 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 50 min · 889 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 65 min · 895 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 50 min · 901 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 55 min · 897 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.