Route reliability record
BNA→LGA
Nashville to New York
- Flights
- 3,785
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 764 mi
- Carriers
- 5
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 3,785 BNA to LGA flights, of which Republic Airways flew 1,658 at 73.7% on time.
Best time to fly BNA to LGA: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Saturday. Flights in that window arrived on time 84.6% of the time and Saturday flights 78.9%, against 70.7% for the route overall.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 73.7% on time across 1,658 flights.
Key figures
On time
70.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,605 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Republic
73.7% on time across 1,658 flights
These figures cover 3,785 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on BNA to LGA
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 73.7% of the time; Delta Air Lines manages 65.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 450 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 110 | 81.7% | 66 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Republic Airways | 1,658 | 73.7% | 73 min | 4.70% | C− |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,455 | 68.2% | 55 min | 2.27% | C |
| Delta Air Lines | 450 | 65.9% | 108 min | 4.89% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 112 | 65.7% | 126 min | 4.46% | C− |
Delta Air Lines cancels 4.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on BNA to LGA
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Nashville to New York
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 3 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BNA → JFKNashville to New York | Republic Airways | 75.6% | 78.0% | 3.11% | 8am–11am, Mon | YX 4712 12:00 |
| 2. BNA → EWRNashville to Newark | United Airlines | 73.6% | 75.4% | 2.44% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 3. BNA → LGANashville to New York | Republic Airways | 70.2% | 73.7% | 4.70% | 5am–8am, Sat | YX 4676 10:37 |
| 4. BNA → JFKNashville to New York | JetBlue Airways | 68.6% | 73.8% | 7.10% | 5am–8am, Fri | B6 1174 13:53 |
| 5. BNA → LGANashville to New York | Southwest Airlines | 66.7% | 68.2% | 2.27% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am884 flights84.6%
- 8am–11am599 flights78.7%
- 11am–2pm621 flights70.6%
- 2pm–5pm662 flights62.1%
- 5pm–8pm806 flights59.0%
- 8pm–5am213 flights59.2%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.0% on time, against 84.6% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 884 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter BNA to LGA by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On BNA to LGA, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 84.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 59.0%, a wide gap of 25.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am84.6%
- 8–11am78.7%
- 11am–2pm70.6%
- 2–5pm62.1%
- 5–8pm59.0%
- 8pm–5am59.2%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 31 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 55.3%. January is the strongest month at 86.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 31 points. March was the busiest month here, with 366 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.0%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 76,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 76,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. The split is drawn from 76,113 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 84.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.65%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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 stage length
What a delay here actually costs
11.2% 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 764 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 70.3% on time across 3,785 flights, within half 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 3,785 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in LGA after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.65% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 3,605 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BNA to LGA questions
How often is BNA to LGA delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 29.3% of the 3,785 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on BNA to LGA?
Republic Airways leads at 73.7% on time across 1,658 flights. Delta Air Lines is at the other end on 65.9%, a gap of 8 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BNA to LGA?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 84.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 59.0%, 26 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are March delays on BNA to LGA?
March is the weakest month at 55.3% on time, compared with 86.0% in January. Across the year that is 31 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to BNA — the return legseparate record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on BNA to LGA81.7%
- Republic Airways on BNA to LGA73.7%
- Southwest Airlines on BNA to LGA68.2%
- Delta Air Lines on BNA to LGA65.9%
- American Airlines on BNA to LGA65.7%
- BNA to ORD, a related route70.9%
- ORD to LGA, a related route66.6%
- BNA to DCA, a related route71.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record81.7%
- Republic Airways on-time record73.7%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record68.2%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. BNA to LGA and LGA to BNA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.