Carrier route record
OOLGA→BNA
SkyWest Airlines · New York to Nashville
- 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 LGA to BNA earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.0% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 110 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.
Key figures
On time
57.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 107 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.73%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.3%
Every carrier on LGA to BNA, 3,785 flights
These figures cover 110 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 27.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on LGA to BNA
SkyWest flew 110 of the 3,785 flights on LGA to BNA, about 3% of it. Its 57.0% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last 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.
| 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 Airlinesthin sample | 113 | 69.4% | 186 min | 4.42% | C− |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,455 | 66.9% | 61 min | 4.54% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin 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 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 LGA to BNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 57.0% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on LGA to BNA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights48.1%
Scale runs 40% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 57.0% on time across 110 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on LGA to BNA 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 57.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LGA to BNA runs when it is late
SkyWest on LGA to BNA often beats the schedule: 28 of 107 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on LGA to BNA is late it tends to be very late: 29 of its 46 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 17 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early28 flights26.2%
- Within 15 min33 flights30.8%
- 15–29 min late8 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late9 flights8.4%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights11.2%
- 2+ hours late17 flights15.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 107 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 40 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 10 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 SkyWest on LGA to BNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 4 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Five of the five worst days fell in November 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 November 2025 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 3 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 November 2025 | 3 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 4,473 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 36%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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,473 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,893 of the 4,473 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.73%, 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
27.1% 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 81.7% on time across 110 flights, 25 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 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 LGA to BNA
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 57.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 107 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 BNA74.4%
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to BNA70.3%
- American Airlines on LGA to BNA69.4%
- Southwest Airlines on LGA to BNA66.9%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.