Carrier route record
UABNA→EWR
United Airlines · Nashville to Newark
- Flights
- 1,391
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 74%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on BNA to EWR lands a B, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,391 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
76.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,356 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.30%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.0%
Every carrier on BNA to EWR, 1,868 flights
These figures cover 1,391 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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.
Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on BNA to EWR
United flew 1,391 of the 1,868 flights on BNA to EWR, most of the route. Its 76.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 76.0% to Spirit at 52.6%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,391 | 76.0% | 90 min | 2.30% | B |
| Republic Airways | 396 | 75.9% | 65 min | 5.81% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 81 | 52.6% | 94 min | 3.70% | F− |
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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am338 flights89.5%
- 8am–11am356 flights83.5%
- 11am–2pm171 flights79.0%
- 2pm–5pm233 flights60.7%
- 5pm–8pm275 flights59.5%
- 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: 59.5% on time, against 89.5% 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 356 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. June was the busiest month here, with 151 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 81.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 69.6%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 29,000 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.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
51% 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 15,000 minutes out of 29,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 29,243 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 89.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.30% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.3% 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 return leg runs 75.1% on time across 1,390 flights, within about a point 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 1,391 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. 1,356 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 EWR75.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.