OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Nashville to Richmond

527 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BNA–RIC arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 342 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights342

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • 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 → RIC

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 57% to 89% on time.

  • Mornings89% on time · p90 15 min · 56 flights · limited
  • Middays88% on time · p90 15 min · 555 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 50 min · 224 flights
  • Evenings57% on time · p90 70 min · 92 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 86% on time.

  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 30 min · 122 flights · limited
  • Saturdays84% on time · p90 35 min · 113 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 85 flights · limited
  • Thursdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 220 flights
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 30 min · 83 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 25 min · 88 flights · limited
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 45 min · 220 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.