Flights Nashville → Austin
BNA → AUS
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Austin operates with a Boeing 737-300 and Boeing 737-500 aircraft, serving 768 flights annually. With a 78% on-time performance rate, the average delay is approximately 12.7 minutes, connecting passengers at Nashville International Airport, which opened in 1937, to one of the busiest airports in Texas that handles over twenty-one million passengers per year.
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 Nashville (BNA) → Austin (AUS) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 952 flights monitored in recent months, 78% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.26%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 22.8/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Austin the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Austin: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Austin (AUS) heads south-west for about 1,215 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 56m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 34% of BNA-AUS flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Austin it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 952 tracked BNA-AUS flights, 78% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 1.3% 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 BNA-AUS
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Austin (AUS) route, on-time performance is 78% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 952 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Austin is 1.26% across 952 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.
