Flights Nashville → Pittsburgh
BNA → PIT
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Pittsburgh operates with a Boeing 737-300 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 68%. Over the past year, it experienced an average delay of 15.3 minutes per flight out of a total of 261 flights.
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) → Pittsburgh (PIT) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 330 flights monitored in recent months, 70% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 16 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.52%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Pittsburgh the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Pittsburgh: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Pittsburgh (PIT) heads north-east for about 743 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 21m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 42% of BNA-PIT flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Pittsburgh it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 330 tracked BNA-PIT flights, 70% left on time with an average delay of 16 min and a 1.5% 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-PIT
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Pittsburgh (PIT) route, on-time performance is 70% with an average delay of 16 minutes, based on 330 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Pittsburgh is 1.52% across 330 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.
