Flights Nashville → Pensacola
BNA → PNS
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Pensacola has a 78% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 12.4 minutes when flights are not on time. The origin airport in Nashville, which opened in 1937, serves this route along with others, while the destination city of Pensacola handles over one million six hundred and nine thousand sixty-three passengers annually at its airport.
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) → Pensacola (PNS) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 271 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.37%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Pensacola the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Pensacola: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Pensacola (PNS) heads south for about 630 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 12m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 44% of BNA-PNS flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Pensacola it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 271 tracked BNA-PNS flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 0.4% 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-PNS
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Pensacola (PNS) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 271 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Pensacola is 0.37% across 271 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.
