OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Nashville to San Antonio

822 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BNA–SAT arrive on time 78% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate78%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 936 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights936

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline19%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft70%
  • 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 → SAT

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 — 94% on time.

  • Mornings94% on time · p90 5 min · 1,075 flights
  • Overnights70% on time · p90 45 min · 964 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 50 min · 194 flights · limited
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 70 min · 158 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 86% on time.

  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 15 min · 340 flights
  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 342 flights
  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 278 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 30 min · 358 flights
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 30 min · 357 flights
  • Sundays78% on time · p90 40 min · 392 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 35 min · 369 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.