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Route Reliability

Nashville → Kansas City

BNAMCI · 491 miles · Nashville International Airport to Kansas City International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
1,396
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 1,384 flights
  • Spirit Airlines91% on time · 11 flights
  • American 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-you made the right choice.

BNA–MCI flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 58% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BNA–MCI flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Saturdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

BNA–MCI flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon77%(221 flights)
  • Tue87%(199 flights)
  • Wed80%(198 flights)
  • Thu73%(211 flights)
  • Fri75%(215 flights)
  • Sat89%(147 flights)
  • Sun71%(189 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM96%(369 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM76%(114 flights)
  • 12–3 PM85%(274 flights)
  • 3–6 PM63%(157 flights)
  • 6–9 PM71%(275 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM58%(191 flights)
On-time trend by month
69%
May

Jun 70% → May 69% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%137
July 202566%127
August 202585%115
September 202588%112
October 202577%121
November 202581%115
December 202582%119
January 202697%94
February 202682%100
March 202676%106
April 202675%114
May 202669%120

Based on 1,396 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.