Flight number record
UA 2454
United Airlines · Newark to Nashville
- Route
- EWR → BNA
- Departs
- 16:05
- Flights
- 299
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2454 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 128 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 290 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.68%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2454 flies
UA 2454 flies EWR to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:05, used on 70 of 299 flights, with 16:13 (46 flights) and 16:15 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 16:0570 flights23.4%
- Departs 16:1346 flights15.4%
- Departs 16:1535 flights11.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 16:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2454 runs 7 points worse at 64.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2454 next to EWR to BNA
Every carrier on EWR to BNA combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 1,882 flights, so UA 2454 is 10 points behind it. United flew 1,477 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2454thin sample | 299 | 64.5% | 71 min | 2.68% | D |
| All United Airlines on EWR–BNA | 1,477 | 73.2% | 72 min | 2.84% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–BNA | 1,882 | 74.1% | 69 min | 3.29% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 2026 at 55.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 75 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202549 flights58.3%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights74.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights55.4%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2454 did best on Tuesday at 77.3% on time and worst on Monday at 54.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2454 runs when it is late
The 103 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early64 flights22.1%
- Within 15 min123 flights42.4%
- 15–29 min late31 flights10.7%
- 30–59 min late39 flights13.4%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 290 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 72 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 38 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at BNA.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2454
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 August 2026, 7 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2026 | 7 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 May 2026 | 7 hours 14 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 August 2026 | 6 hours 57 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 August 2026 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 7,264 reported delay minutes.
- 32%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,264 delay minutes reported on UA 2454.
Cancellations run at 2.68%, against 1.89% 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
11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DFW to EWR (99), IND to ORD (36) and BOS to EWR (20), 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. 299 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: 2.68% of its 299 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over 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 1261 on the same route68.6%
- United Airlines 1428 on the same route90.3%
- 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
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.