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Route Reliability

Nashville → Norfolk

BNA–ORF · 585 miles · Nashville International Airport to Norfolk International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
6 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
424
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 81% of the time across 424 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BNA–ORF flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 70% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BNA–ORF flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Tuesdays and just 70% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

BNA–ORF flights arrived on time 81% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 92% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(51 flights)
  • Tue90%(52 flights)
  • Wed87%(52 flights)
  • Thu83%(52 flights)
  • Fri81%(52 flights)
  • Sat85%(73 flights)
  • Sun70%(87 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(174 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(170 flights)
  • 3–6 PM71%(52 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(23 flights)
On-time trend by month
93%
May

Jun 64% → May 93% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202564%39
July 202549%39
August 202589%37
September 202597%34
October 202582%34
November 202582%33
December 202594%33
January 202697%30
February 202686%28
March 202668%34
April 202684%37
May 202693%41

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Based on 424 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.