DEN to BNA flight delays
Denver, CO (DEN) Nashville, TN (BNA) · 1,013 miles
340 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
63.72%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.29%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
58 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
23 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 13.9 points more often than Southwest 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.
This is a late route. Flights from Denver to Nashville miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
This is a thin route — 340 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, United Airlines arrived on time most often on DEN to BNA. Southwest Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on DEN to BNA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 198 | 57.58% | 0% | 54 min | F |
| United Airlines | 112 | 71.43% | 0% | 68 min | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 30 | 75.86% | 3.33% | 72 min | — |
The return leg
BNA to DEN Nashville back to Denver 58.88% on time FOther routes from Denver
Common questions
Are flights from Denver to Nashville usually delayed?
63.72% of flights on the DEN to BNA route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Denver to Nashville?
United Airlines, at 71.43% on time across 112 flights. The least punctual on the route was Southwest Airlines at 57.58%.
How often are DEN to BNA flights cancelled?
0.29% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 3 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When DEN to BNA flights are late, how late are they?
About 58 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 DEN to BNA 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 →