Flights Kansas City → Nashville
MCI → BNA
Route overview
This flight route connects Kansas City with Nashville, featuring an overall on-time performance rate of 80%, with flights typically experiencing a mean delay of 10.4 minutes. The destination airport in Nashville handles approximately 18,990,858 passengers annually and both airports have been operational for several decades, with the origin airport opening in 1956 and the destination airport in 1937.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Kansas City (MCI) → Nashville (BNA) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 412 flights monitored in recent months, 81% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 2.91%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 17.8/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Nashville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Kansas City (MCI) to Nashville (BNA) heads south-east for about 790 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 24m.
Departures from Kansas City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 47% of MCI-BNA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Nashville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 412 tracked MCI-BNA flights, 81% left on time with an average delay of 10 min and a 2.9% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about MCI-BNA
On the Kansas City (MCI) -> Nashville (BNA) route, on-time performance is 81% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 412 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Kansas City-Nashville is 2.91% across 412 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
