Carrier route record
AABNA→LGA
American Airlines · Nashville to New York
- Flights
- 112
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 3%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on BNA to LGA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.1 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 112 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,658 at 73.7% on time.
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
65.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 102 completed flights
Avg delay
126 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.46%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.7%
Every carrier on BNA to LGA, 3,785 flights
These figures cover 112 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on BNA to LGA
American flew 112 of the 3,785 flights on BNA to LGA, about 3% of it. Its 65.7% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.7% to American at 65.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 Airlines (this page)thin 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.
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 112 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's BNA to LGA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 65.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on BNA to LGA through the year
- Apr–Jun 202634 flights60.6%
- Jul–Sep 202678 flights68.1%
Scale runs 50% to 75%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 65.7% on time across 112 flights.
Split by quarter, American on BNA to LGA logged 34 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 78 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 65.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on BNA to LGA runs when it is late
The 35 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early15 flights14.7%
- Within 15 min52 flights51.0%
- 15–29 min late10 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late8 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights12.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 102 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 34 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on BNA to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 August 2026, 9 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2026 | 9 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 June 2026 | 7 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 6 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 June 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 74% of the 4,393 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
74% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,393 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 74 to one. The split is drawn from 4,393 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.46%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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 costs
16.7% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.4% on time across 113 flights, 4 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 112 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 American on BNA to LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.46% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 102 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to LGA, every carrier
- American on LGA to BNA, the return leg
- 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 network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.