Route profile
CLT→BNA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Nashville, 328 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 29% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 11,622 flights. How this is calculated
CLT → BNA arrives on time 74.6% of the time; the return trip, BNA → CLT, arrives on time 75.0% of the time.
CLT → BNA spends 28.9 minutes on the ground on a 328-mile trip: 20.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 8.2 minutes from touchdown to gate at BNA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Why CLT → BNA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → BNA cancelled 164 of 11,622 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 71. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 82.9% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 85 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 164 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
136 cancellations, 82.9% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
20 cancellations, 12.2% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
8 cancellations, 4.9% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
164 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → BNA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
54 min late
against a median of 3 min early
Percentiles over 11,622 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at BNA after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 42% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 25% | High risk |
| 60 min | 16% | High risk |
| 90 min | 8.9% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.1% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 1.41% of the time and diverts 0.15% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 11,440 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 54 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 11,622 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → BNA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 88.7% of the time, against 62.4% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 26.3 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 94.6% on time from 318 flights
- 7 AM: 87.0% on time from 885 flights
- 8 AM: 87.8% on time from 356 flights
- 9 AM: 85.0% on time from 763 flights
- 10 AM: 80.1% on time from 789 flights
- 11 AM: 85.6% on time from 1,140 flights
- 12 PM: 84.4% on time from 299 flights
- 1 PM: 78.1% on time from 1,017 flights
- 2 PM: 74.1% on time from 641 flights
- 3 PM: 72.2% on time from 521 flights
- 4 PM: 67.3% on time from 835 flights
- 5 PM: 61.2% on time from 494 flights
- 6 PM: 61.4% on time from 1,018 flights
- 7 PM: 66.7% on time from 215 flights
- 8 PM: 62.5% on time from 719 flights
- 9 PM: 58.7% on time from 546 flights
- 10 PM: 72.8% on time from 684 flights
- 11 PM: 61.2% on time from 378 flights
Why CLT → BNA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CLT → BNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → BNA, at 52.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 88.7% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 62.4%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of CLT to BNA: 4.6 times the normal rate at CLT and 4.4 times at BNA. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: CLT 5.7% against 1.2%, BNA 4.7% against 1.1%. Flights that did leave BNA in bad weather arrived on time 66.5% of the time, against 79.0% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | CLT | BNA |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 5.7% | 4.7% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 1.2% | 1.1% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 63.5% | 66.5% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 75.9% | 79.0% |
| Departures in bad weather | 55,311 | 20,643 |
Of the carriers on this route, Southwest Airlines (2.6% cancelled against 5.5% for the other carriers at CLT) cancelled the fewest departures from CLT in bad weather and PSA Airlines (7.2% cancelled against 5.0% for the other carriers at CLT) the most.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at CLT
All departures from CLT| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 990 | 2.6%below the others | 5.5% |
| American Airlines | 33,044 | 5.3%below the others | 6.4% |
| Envoy Air | 1,519 | 7.2%above the others | 5.9% |
| PSA Airlines | 13,278 | 7.2%above the others | 5.0% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from CLT and BNA, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from CLT on every route.
Weather source and limits. In full: CLT (airlines), BNA, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 6,115 | 72.2% | 1.36% | -2 min | 10.5% |
| PSA Airlines | 3,228 | 78.9% | 1.86% | -5 min | 7.4% |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,945 | 74.1% | 0.77% | -3 min | 7.8% |
| Envoy Air | 246 | 84.2% | 2.03% | -9 min | 3.3% |
American Airlines flew 53.0% of the 11,534 flights listed. Envoy Air cancelled 2.03% of its flights here against 0.77% for Southwest Airlines.
Envoy Air arrived on time 12.0 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA526 American Airlines | 10:59 PM | 911 | 64.8% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.0 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 77.6%
- Feb: 79.8%
- Mar: 73.5%
- Apr: 75.4%
- May: 66.6%
- Jun: 67.0%
- Jul: 61.9%
- Aug: 75.9%
- Sep: 80.7%
- Oct: 83.1%
- Nov: 84.2%
- Dec: 77.2%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 22.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 66.8% from 394 flights
- August 2023: 76.0% from 371 flights
- September 2023: 80.8% from 329 flights
- October 2023: 87.0% from 354 flights
- November 2023: 87.0% from 331 flights
- December 2023: 85.1% from 330 flights
- January 2024: 71.9% from 314 flights
- February 2024: 87.9% from 290 flights
- March 2024: 77.1% from 323 flights
- April 2024: 77.2% from 303 flights
- May 2024: 59.2% from 327 flights
- June 2024: 67.8% from 313 flights
- July 2024: 50.5% from 318 flights
- August 2024: 72.6% from 328 flights
- September 2024: 76.5% from 269 flights
- October 2024: 84.9% from 305 flights
- November 2024: 82.5% from 275 flights
- December 2024: 71.8% from 310 flights
- January 2025: 77.1% from 338 flights
- February 2025: 74.7% from 305 flights
- March 2025: 71.3% from 343 flights
- April 2025: 72.3% from 338 flights
- May 2025: 67.0% from 367 flights
- June 2025: 65.3% from 328 flights
- July 2025: 68.2% from 331 flights
- August 2025: 79.5% from 280 flights
- September 2025: 84.9% from 252 flights
- October 2025: 76.6% from 303 flights
- November 2025: 82.6% from 288 flights
- December 2025: 74.1% from 298 flights
- January 2026: 85.5% from 260 flights
- February 2026: 76.3% from 248 flights
- March 2026: 72.2% from 314 flights
- April 2026: 76.8% from 336 flights
- May 2026: 73.3% from 330 flights
- June 2026: 68.0% from 285 flights
- July 2026: 60.6% from 294 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 75.6% against 73.4% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.2 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 11,622 CLT → BNA flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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