Carrier route record

AALGA→BNA

American Airlines · New York to Nashville

Flights: 113
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 LGA to BNA sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 3.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 113 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,657 at 74.4% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 74.4% on time across 1,657 flights.

On time

69.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 108 completed flights

Avg delay

186 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.42%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

70.3%

Every carrier on LGA to BNA, 3,785 flights

These figures cover 113 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 22.2% 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 LGA to BNA

American flew 113 of the 3,785 flights on LGA to BNA, about 3% of it. Its 69.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 70.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 74.4% to SkyWest at 57.0%. 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 74.4% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 66.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,455 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on LGA to BNA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	1,657	74.4%	63 min	5.91%	C−
Delta Air Lines	450	70.3%	84 min	4.22%	C−
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	113	69.4%	186 min	4.42%	C−
Southwest Airlines	1,455	66.9%	61 min	4.54%	C−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	110	57.0%	97 min	2.73%	D

Republic Airways cancels 5.9% 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 113 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's LGA to BNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 69.4% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

American on LGA to BNA through the year

Apr–Jun 202634 flights73.5%
Jul–Sep 202679 flights67.6%

Scale runs 60% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 69.4% on time across 113 flights.

Split by quarter, American on LGA to BNA logged 34 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 79 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 69.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on LGA to BNA runs when it is late

American on LGA to BNA often beats the schedule: 41 of 108 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on LGA to BNA is late it tends to be very late: 24 of its 33 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 19 were two hours or more.

15+ min early41 flights38.0%
Within 15 min34 flights31.5%
15–29 min late4 flights3.7%
30–59 min late5 flights4.6%
1–2 hours late5 flights4.6%
2+ hours late19 flights17.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 108 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on LGA to BNA

The latest arrival of the period was on 12 August 2026, 17 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.

The latest arrivals of American on LGA to BNA in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
12 August 2026	17 hours 9 minutes	Carrier
31 August 2026	10 hours 45 minutes	Extreme weather
10 August 2026	9 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
18 July 2026	7 hours 31 minutes	Extreme weather
6 July 2026	6 hours 31 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 6,152 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
62%
Extreme weather
14%
Carrier
13%
National Airspace System
10%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,152 reported delay minutes.

62% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,152 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.

Cancellations run at 4.42%, 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 costs

22.2% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.7% on time across 112 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 113 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 LGA to BNA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.42% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 108 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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