Carrier route record
OOBNA→LGA
SkyWest Airlines · Nashville to New York
- Flights
- 110
- 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 SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on BNA to LGA lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 110 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,658 at 73.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BNA to LGA record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 109 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.7%
Every carrier on BNA to LGA, 3,785 flights
These figures cover 110 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on BNA to LGA
SkyWest flew 110 of the 3,785 flights on BNA to LGA, about 3% of it. Its 81.7% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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 Airlines (this page)thin 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.
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Departure window
When SkyWest 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 110 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's BNA to LGA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 81.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on BNA to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights78.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 81.7% on time across 110 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on BNA to LGA logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 80 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 81.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on BNA to LGA runs when it is late
SkyWest on BNA to LGA often beats the schedule: 39 of 109 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 20 late arrivals split 3 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early39 flights35.8%
- Within 15 min50 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late3 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late9 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 109 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 12 of 109 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on BNA to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 December 2025, 3 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 December 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 September 2025 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 1 hour 14 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 1,320 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,058 of the 1,320 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,320 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 57.0% on time across 110 flights, 25 points below 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 25 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 110 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 SkyWest on BNA to LGA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 110 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 81.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 109 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to LGA, every carrier
- SkyWest on LGA to BNA, the return leg
- 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%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- 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.