Carrier route record
UABNA→EWR
United Airlines · Nashville to Newark
- Flights
- 1,478
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 78%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on BNA to EWR sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 1,478 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on BNA to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,437 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.44%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.0%
Every carrier on BNA to EWR, 1,883 flights
These figures cover 1,478 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on BNA to EWR
United flew 1,478 of the 1,883 flights on BNA to EWR, most of the route. Its 75.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.5% to Spirit at 52.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 354 | 76.5% | 63 min | 6.21% | B− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,478 | 75.4% | 89 min | 2.44% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 51 | 52.0% | 83 min | 1.96% | F |
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am296 flights90.4%
- 8am–11am439 flights83.2%
- 11am–2pm172 flights78.3%
- 2pm–5pm250 flights60.3%
- 5pm–8pm303 flights59.1%
- 8pm–5am18 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.1% on time, against 90.4% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 439 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on BNA to EWR through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 48.4%. February is the strongest month at 91.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 43 points. July was the busiest month here, with 176 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 67.9%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on BNA to EWR runs when it is late
United on BNA to EWR often beats the schedule: 399 of 1,437 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 353 late arrivals split 111 under half an hour, 93 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 149 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early399 flights27.8%
- Within 15 min685 flights47.7%
- 15–29 min late111 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late93 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late76 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late73 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,437 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
64 of 372 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 45 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on BNA to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 July 2026, 20 hours 46 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 20 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 13 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 August 2026 | 9 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 November 2025 | 7 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 July 2026 | 7 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 13,000 minutes out of 31,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 31,336 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.4% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.44% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.4% 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 return leg runs 73.2% on time across 1,477 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,478 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking United on BNA to EWR
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 91.5% on time and October 48.4%, a swing of 43 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 1,437 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to BNA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on BNA to EWR76.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.