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Route Reliability

Kansas City → Nashville

MCI–BNA · 491 miles · Kansas City International Airport to Nashville International Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
83%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
1,391
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines84% on time · 1,379 flights
  • Spirit Airlines73% 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.

MCI–BNA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 65% between 6–9 PM.

Wednesday has been the better bet.

A small edge: 87% on time on Wednesdays against 80% on Sundays.

Slipping a little lately.

MCI–BNA flights arrived on time 81% 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
  • Mon81%(216 flights)
  • Tue87%(201 flights)
  • Wed87%(197 flights)
  • Thu84%(209 flights)
  • Fri81%(213 flights)
  • Sat85%(147 flights)
  • Sun80%(193 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM100%(10 flights)
  • 6–9 AM96%(391 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM92%(259 flights)
  • 12–3 PM78%(373 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(262 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(81 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 77% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202577%136
July 202580%127
August 202589%115
September 202591%112
October 202581%121
November 202583%113
December 202580%118
January 202692%95
February 202690%98
March 202683%108
April 202687%114
May 202674%119

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Based on 1,391 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.