OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Richmond to Nashville

527 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on RIC–BNA arrive on time 82% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate82%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay25 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%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-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights342

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • 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 RIC → BNA

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

Best time of day

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

  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 577 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 45 min · 125 flights · limited
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 85 min · 111 flights · limited
  • Evenings60% on time · p90 85 min · 109 flights · limited

Best day of week

Wednesdays are the most reliable day to fly this route — 94% on time.

  • Wednesdays94% on time · p90 10 min · 85 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 122 flights · limited
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 113 flights · limited
  • Fridays81% on time · p90 25 min · 83 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 25 min · 88 flights · limited
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 220 flights
  • Sundays71% 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.