Flight number record
UA 2454
United Airlines · Newark to Nashville
- Route
- EWR → BNA
- Departs
- 16:13
- Flights
- 264
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2454, check with United Airlines.
UA 2454 draws a D. 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 264 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2454 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 138 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 264 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When UA 2454 flies
UA 2454 flies EWR to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:13, used on 46 of 264 flights, with 16:29 (39 flights) and 16:05 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:1346 flights17.4%
- Departs 16:2939 flights14.8%
- Departs 16:0535 flights13.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 16:13 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2454 runs 9 points worse at 63.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2454 next to EWR to BNA
Every carrier on EWR to BNA combined arrived on time 75.5% of the time across 1,867 flights, so UA 2454 is 12 points behind it. United flew 1,390 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2454thin sample | 264 | 63.8% | 62 min | 2.65% | D |
| All United Airlines on EWR–BNA | 1,390 | 75.1% | 68 min | 2.30% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–BNA | 1,867 | 75.5% | 66 min | 3.00% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2454 quarter by quarter
UA 2454 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 50.0%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 66 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202551 flights50.0%
- Oct–Dec 202549 flights58.3%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights74.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2454 did best on Tuesday at 78.0% on time and worst on Monday at 51.3%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2454 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,778 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
37% 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 5,778 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 5,778 delay minutes reported on UA 2454.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
The 748 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DFW to EWR (70), BOS to EWR (62) and IND to ORD (36), but none flew often enough under UA 2454 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to BNA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 264 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking UA 2454
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2454: 2.65% of its 264 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to BNA, every carrier and departure
- BNA to EWR, the return direction
- United Airlines 1428 on the same route88.5%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.