ORD to BNA flight delays
Chicago, IL (ORD) Nashville, TN (BNA) · 409 miles
413 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
66.83%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.66%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
86 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
30 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 15.2 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: 2.66% 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 is a late route. Flights from Chicago 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 — 413 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 ORD to BNA. SkyWest Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on ORD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 150 | 65.54% | 1.33% | 92 min | D |
| SkyWest Airlines | 140 | 50.38% | 5.71% | 90 min | F |
| Envoy Air | 62 | 82.26% | 0% | 43 min | — |
| American Airlines | 30 | 82.76% | 3.33% | 58 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 28 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
| Southwest Airlines | 3 | 66.67% | 0% | 120 min | — |
The return leg
BNA to ORD Nashville back to Chicago 69.33% on time DOther routes from Chicago
Common questions
Are flights from Chicago to Nashville usually delayed?
66.83% of flights on the ORD to BNA 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 Chicago to Nashville?
United Airlines, at 65.54% on time across 150 flights. The least punctual on the route was SkyWest Airlines at 50.38%.
How often are ORD to BNA flights cancelled?
2.66% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 27 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When ORD to BNA flights are late, how late are they?
About 86 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 ORD 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 →