BNA to ORD flight delays
Nashville, TN (BNA) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 409 miles
413 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
69.33%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.91%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
102 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
32 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. United Airlines arrived on time 20.7 points more often than SkyWest Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.91% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from BNA overall run 7.3 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion BNA has, this route is largely escaping it.
Flights from Nashville to Chicago run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, United Airlines arrived on time most often on BNA to ORD. SkyWest Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on BNA to ORD
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 150 | 75.68% | 1.33% | 96 min | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 140 | 54.96% | 6.43% | 103 min | F |
| Envoy Air | 62 | 83.87% | 0% | 61 min | — |
| American Airlines | 30 | 55.17% | 3.33% | 84 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 28 | 89.29% | 0% | 359 min | — |
| Southwest Airlines | 3 | 33.33% | 0% | 84 min | — |
The return leg
ORD to BNA Chicago back to Nashville 66.83% on time DOther routes from Nashville
Common questions
Are flights from Nashville to Chicago usually delayed?
69.33% of flights on the BNA to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Nashville to Chicago?
United Airlines, at 75.68% on time across 150 flights. The least punctual on the route was SkyWest Airlines at 54.96%.
How often are BNA to ORD flights cancelled?
2.91% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 29 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When BNA to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 102 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BNA to ORD during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →