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Route Reliability

Nashville → Washington

BNAIAD · 542 miles · Nashville International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
13 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
1,064
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • United Airlines79% on time · 1,023 flights
  • Allegiant Air85% on time · 40 flights
  • Southwest Airlines100% on time · 1 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

BNA–IAD flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 70% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BNA–IAD flights arrived on time 84% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 74%.

Slipping a little lately.

BNA–IAD flights arrived on time 78% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(151 flights)
  • Tue83%(133 flights)
  • Wed84%(140 flights)
  • Thu82%(164 flights)
  • Fri76%(152 flights)
  • Sat83%(142 flights)
  • Sun74%(166 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM89%(345 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM88%(34 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(354 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(315 flights)
On-time trend by month
80%
May

Jun 74% → May 80% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%125
July 202569%96
August 202589%100
September 202582%79
October 202581%93
November 202573%88
December 202581%84
January 202686%59
February 202688%65
March 202670%86
April 202685%88
May 202680%85

Based on 1,064 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.