Carrier route record
OOLGA→BNA
SkyWest Airlines · New York to Nashville
- Flights
- 178
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 5%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LGA to BNA draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 178 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 1,696 at 74.6% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 74.6% on time across 1,696 flights.
Key figures
On time
61.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 168 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.62%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
71.2%
Every carrier on LGA to BNA, 3,805 flights
These figures cover 178 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 24.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on LGA to BNA
SkyWest flew 178 of the 3,805 flights on LGA to BNA, about 5% of it. Its 61.3% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 74.6% to SkyWest at 61.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The three carriers here are closely matched: 6 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 1,696 | 74.6% | 62 min | 5.31% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 34 | 73.5% | 125 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 450 | 69.2% | 81 min | 4.44% | C− |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,447 | 69.0% | 65 min | 3.25% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 178 | 61.3% | 95 min | 5.62% | D− |
Republic Airways cancels 5.3% 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.
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 178 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's LGA to BNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 61.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on LGA to BNA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202598 flights72.5%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights48.1%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 61.3% on time across 178 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on LGA to BNA logged 98 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 61.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 6,195 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 47%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 22%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,195 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,923 of the 6,195 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.62%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 24.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.6% on time across 178 flights, 22 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 22 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 178 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 LGA to BNA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.62% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 168 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to BNA, every carrier
- SkyWest on BNA to LGA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on LGA to BNA74.6%
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to BNA69.2%
- Southwest Airlines on LGA to BNA69.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.