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Route Reliability

Birmingham → Nashville

BHM–BNA · 177 miles · Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport to Nashville International Airport

79
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
455
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 76% of the time across 455 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BHM–BNA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 39% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

BHM–BNA flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Saturdays and just 65% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

BHM–BNA flights arrived on time 76% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(62 flights)
  • Tue81%(64 flights)
  • Wed80%(64 flights)
  • Thu69%(65 flights)
  • Fri65%(65 flights)
  • Sat88%(64 flights)
  • Sun74%(66 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM95%(87 flights)
  • 6–9 AM—(2 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM79%(81 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(102 flights)
  • 3–6 PM68%(139 flights)
  • 6–9 PM39%(39 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 73% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%30
July 202553%30
August 202574%31
September 202580%30
October 202561%31
November 202584%32
December 202590%31
January 202693%29
February 202668%28
March 202666%56
April 202687%60
May 202676%62

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Based on 455 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.