Flights Nashville → Newark
BNA → EWR
Route overview
This flight route connects Nashville to Newark, with an overall on-time performance rate of 82%, and an average delay time of 8.1 minutes per flight. Over the past year, the route has seen a total of 375 flights, linking Nashville International Airport, which opened in 1937, to Newark Liberty International Airport, which was established much more recently in 2001 and serves over 43 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) → Newark (EWR) route is operated by United Airlines, Southwest Airlines. Across 512 flights monitored in recent months, 82% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 17 minutes. The cancellation rate is 5.27%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Newark the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Newark: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Newark (EWR) heads north-east for about 1,201 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 55m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 38% of BNA-EWR flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Newark it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 512 tracked BNA-EWR flights, 82% left on time with an average delay of 17 min and a 5.3% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about BNA-EWR
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Newark (EWR) route, on-time performance is 82% with an average delay of 17 minutes, based on 512 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Newark is 5.27% across 512 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: United Airlines, 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.
