OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Antonio to Nashville

822 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SAT–BNA arrive on time 86% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate86%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 920 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time86%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights920

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)31%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • 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 SAT → BNA

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 — 96% on time.

  • Mornings96% on time · p90 5 min · 1,088 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 269 flights
  • Afternoons77% on time · p90 35 min · 764 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 55 min · 299 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 81% to 88% on time.

  • Saturdays88% on time · p90 20 min · 286 flights
  • Tuesdays88% on time · p90 15 min · 334 flights
  • Mondays88% on time · p90 15 min · 354 flights
  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 332 flights
  • Fridays85% on time · p90 20 min · 355 flights
  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 20 min · 366 flights
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 35 min · 393 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.