Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Nashville → Cincinnati

BNA–CVG · 230 miles · Nashville International Airport to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
460
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 79% of the time across 460 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

BNA–CVG flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 57% between 6–9 PM.

Mondays have been rough.

BNA–CVG flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays and just 67% on Mondays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

BNA–CVG flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon67%(64 flights)
  • Tue83%(64 flights)
  • Wed89%(64 flights)
  • Thu72%(65 flights)
  • Fri74%(65 flights)
  • Sat84%(69 flights)
  • Sun82%(67 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(98 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(179 flights)
  • 3–6 PM84%(87 flights)
  • 6–9 PM57%(82 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM83%(12 flights)
On-time trend by month
71%
May

Jun 70% → May 71% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%30
July 202568%31
August 202587%31
September 202590%30
October 202581%31
November 202582%34
December 202576%33
January 202690%30
February 202689%28
March 202679%58
April 202675%60
May 202671%62

Keep nerding

Based on 460 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.