Airport month record

BNAJUN

Nashville International in June 2026

Departures: 9,725
Month: June 2026
National, same month: 74.3%
Carriers: 12

Historical statistics for June 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s June. For today’s conditions at BNA, see live FAA status.

BNA in June draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 9,725 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 874 at 84.1% on time.

Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 84.1% on time across 874 flights.

On time

65.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 9,604 completed departures

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.98%

Nationally in June: 1.65%

Whole year

76.2%

BNA across all twelve months

These figures cover 9,725 departures from Nashville International in June 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

June next to BNA's other months

Against BNA's own year, June ran 11 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 76.2%, which makes it the worst of the twelve months in the data.

BNA month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	9,459	69.6%	80 min	2.09%	C
August 2025	9,012	80.8%	63 min	0.81%	B+
September 2025	8,686	85.2%	62 min	0.24%	A+
October 2025	9,841	75.4%	59 min	0.42%	B+
November 2025	8,849	79.0%	68 min	1.22%	B
December 2025	8,776	74.9%	64 min	0.99%	C+
January 2026	7,853	84.3%	66 min	7.07%	B−
February 2026	7,542	81.0%	56 min	1.62%	B
March 2026	9,623	75.1%	71 min	2.31%	B
April 2026	9,617	77.7%	58 min	0.60%	B+
May 2026	9,814	70.6%	57 min	0.57%	C+
June 2026 (this page)	9,725	65.5%	61 min	0.98%	C+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave BNA in June

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 42 points, against 26 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,489 flights88.9%
8am–11am1,924 flights77.9%
11am–2pm1,560 flights67.8%
2pm–5pm1,598 flights55.6%
5pm–8pm2,054 flights52.5%
8pm–5am1,100 flights47.3%

Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 47.3% on time, against 88.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 2,054 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.2%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at BNA in June

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 84.1% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 58.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 5,687 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at BNA in June 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	5,687	58.5%	52 min	0.35%	D+
Delta Air Lines	874	84.1%	77 min	0.80%	B+
American Airlines	851	75.5%	108 min	2.94%	B
United Airlines	674	71.4%	73 min	0.45%	C+
Republic Airways	416	76.9%	91 min	1.92%	B
Allegiant Airthin sample	257	71.1%	71 min	0.39%	C+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	257	66.1%	99 min	3.50%	C−
Envoy Airthin sample	202	72.6%	52 min	2.48%	C
PSA Airlinesthin sample	171	77.7%	83 min	8.19%	B−
JetBlue Airwaysthin sample	148	66.7%	70 min	0.68%	C+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	120	75.6%	34 min	0.83%	B+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	68	71.6%	70 min	1.47%	C

The spread between Delta and Southwest is 26 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 26 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of BNA in June

Routes from BNA in June 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BNA to ORD · Chicago	413	69.3%	102 min	2.91%	C
BNA to ATL · Atlanta	390	82.7%	61 min	0.51%	B+
BNA to DCA · Washington	366	67.9%	81 min	3.55%	C−
BNA to DEN · Denverthin sample	341	58.9%	61 min	0.29%	D+
BNA to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	327	71.7%	99 min	6.12%	C−
BNA to MCO · Orlandothin sample	290	69.7%	53 min	0.69%	C+
BNA to LGA · New Yorkthin sample	286	61.9%	71 min	0.35%	D+
BNA to CLT · Charlottethin sample	285	72.6%	82 min	1.40%	C
BNA to BOS · Bostonthin sample	269	67.9%	70 min	0.37%	C+
BNA to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	260	71.3%	54 min	3.46%	C−
BNA to AUS · Austinthin sample	252	68.1%	66 min	0.00%	C+
BNA to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	232	65.1%	56 min	0.00%	C+
BNA to TPA · Tampathin sample	214	64.6%	47 min	0.93%	D+
BNA to DAL · Dallasthin sample	214	57.0%	57 min	1.87%	D
BNA to DTW · Detroitthin sample	210	71.8%	48 min	0.48%	C+
BNA to MIA · Miamithin sample	205	66.7%	76 min	0.00%	C+
BNA to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	202	66.7%	50 min	0.50%	C+
BNA to SEA · Seattlethin sample	177	69.9%	69 min	2.26%	C
BNA to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	174	57.2%	60 min	0.00%	D+
BNA to EWR · Newarkthin sample	172	78.4%	84 min	0.58%	B+
BNA to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	171	71.2%	41 min	0.58%	C+
BNA to RDU · Raleighthin sample	166	70.3%	54 min	0.60%	C+
BNA to MDW · Chicagothin sample	157	54.9%	52 min	1.27%	F
BNA to BWI · Baltimorethin sample	146	63.4%	56 min	0.68%	D+
BNA to HOU · Houstonthin sample	141	57.4%	46 min	0.00%	D+

Delay causes

What held BNA up in June

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 200,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
49%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 200,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 200,370 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 0.98% against a national 1.65%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 9.7% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

What to do with this

Flying from BNA in June

For a June trip through BNA: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 88.9% on time, and with 10.8% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.

Nashville International (BNA), the whole year
BNA in July69.6%
BNA in August80.8%
BNA in September85.2%
BNA in October75.4%
BNA in November79.0%
BNA in December74.9%
BNA in January84.3%
BNA in February81.0%
BNA in March75.1%
BNA in April77.7%
BNA in May70.6%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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