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Route Reliability

Nashville → Richmond

BNA–RIC · 527 miles · Nashville International Airport to Richmond International Airport

84
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
460
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 391 flights
  • Allegiant Air80% on time · 69 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–RIC flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 65% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BNA–RIC flights arrived on time 92% of the time on Wednesdays and just 66% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon68%(53 flights)
  • Tue89%(55 flights)
  • Wed92%(52 flights)
  • Thu82%(83 flights)
  • Fri75%(52 flights)
  • Sat81%(67 flights)
  • Sun66%(96 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM100%(13 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(69 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(261 flights)
  • 3–6 PM65%(77 flights)
  • 6–9 PM66%(38 flights)
On-time trend by month
75%
May

Jun 67% → May 75% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%39
July 202570%40
August 202583%40
September 202592%38
October 202570%40
November 202581%43
December 202572%43
January 202690%31
February 202671%28
March 202680%35
April 202687%37
May 202675%44

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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.