Flights Nashville → Houston
BNA → HOU
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Houston operates with a Boeing 737-500 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 73%, with an average delay of 13.1 minutes per flight. Over the past year, this route has seen 454 flights, connecting two major cities via airports that have been in operation for decades: Nashville International Airport, which opened in 1937, and Houston's busy William P. Hobby Airport, serving over 13.9 million passengers annually.
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) → Houston (HOU) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 597 flights monitored in recent months, 73% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.84%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Houston (HOU) heads south-west for about 1,078 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 46m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 39% of BNA-HOU flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 597 tracked BNA-HOU flights, 73% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 1.8% 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-HOU
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Houston (HOU) route, on-time performance is 73% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 597 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Houston is 1.84% across 597 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.
