Carrier route record
UAEWR→BNA
United Airlines · Newark to Nashville
- Flights
- 1,477
- 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 EWR to BNA sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,477 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so United on EWR to BNA runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,434 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.84%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.1%
Every carrier on EWR to BNA, 1,882 flights
These figures cover 1,477 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 EWR to BNA
United flew 1,477 of the 1,882 flights on EWR to BNA, most of the route. Its 73.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.1% to Spirit at 72.5%. 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 | 78.1% | 47 min | 5.65% | B− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,477 | 73.2% | 72 min | 2.84% | C |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 51 | 72.5% | 102 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EWR to BNA
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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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am236 flights90.5%
- 8am–11am104 flights88.9%
- 11am–2pm299 flights73.0%
- 2pm–5pm474 flights65.7%
- 5pm–8pm26 flights—
- 8pm–5am338 flights66.7%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.5% of the time, against 65.7% for the afternoon window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 474 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to BNA through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 54.3%. February is the strongest month at 88.6%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 34 points. July was the busiest month here, with 176 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 81.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.9%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to BNA runs when it is late
United on EWR to BNA often beats the schedule: 426 of 1,434 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 384 late arrivals split 128 under half an hour, 114 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 142 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early426 flights29.7%
- Within 15 min624 flights43.5%
- 15–29 min late128 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late114 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late86 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late56 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,434 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
46 of 315 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 115 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at BNA.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EWR to BNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 September 2025, 8 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across September, August and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 August 2026 | 8 hours 8 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 July 2026 | 8 hours 7 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 July 2026 | 7 hours 55 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 August 2026 | 7 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
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 28,000 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
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 90.5% on time here. The split is drawn from 27,658 reported delay minutes.
No single cause dominates. late-arriving aircraft at 34%, carrier at 30% and national airspace system at 28% split the 28,000 reported delay minutes between them. An even spread like this usually means the operation is running close to its designed capacity with no one obvious weak point, and it is the hardest pattern for a traveller to route around.
Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
9.9% 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 75.4% on time across 1,478 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 1,477 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 EWR to BNA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% 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. 1,434 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to BNA, every carrier
- United on BNA to EWR, the return leg
- Republic Airways on EWR to BNA78.1%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) 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.