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Route Reliability

Phoenix → Nashville

PHX–BNA · 1,449 miles · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Nashville International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
9 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
2,367
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Southwest Airlines77%1,818 flights
  2. 2.American Airlines73%545 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (4 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

PHX–BNA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 64% between 12–3 PM.

Thursday is the weak spot.

PHX–BNA flights arrived on time 84% of the time on Saturdays. On Thursdays: 71%.

Southwest Airlines has a slight edge here.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 77% of the time on this route; American Airlines managed 73%.

Recent months have been rougher.

PHX–BNA flights arrived on time 70% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 77% 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

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The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(364 flights)
  • Tue79%(313 flights)
  • Wed80%(321 flights)
  • Thu71%(362 flights)
  • Fri74%(355 flights)
  • Sat84%(281 flights)
  • Sun74%(351 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM—(2 flights)
  • 3–6 AM94%(291 flights)
  • 6–9 AM87%(380 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM77%(480 flights)
  • 12–3 PM64%(315 flights)
  • 3–6 PM67%(570 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(233 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM78%(76 flights)
On-time trend by month
63%
May

Jun 75% → May 63% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202575%194
July 202574%191
August 202586%176
September 202586%168
October 202577%232
November 202578%184
December 202576%192
January 202678%171
February 202677%179
March 202673%230
April 202674%219
May 202663%211

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Based on 2,367 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.