Flights Nashville → Salt Lake City
BNA → SLC
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Salt Lake City operates with an 82% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 8 minutes. The route sees a total of 267 flights per year, each operated by a Canadair Regional Jet 900 aircraft. Nashville International Airport, which opened in 1937, serves as the origin for this busy and reliable connection to Salt Lake City, a major travel hub with over 25 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) → Salt Lake City (SLC) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 341 flights monitored in recent months, 83% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 9 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.88%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Salt Lake City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Salt Lake City (SLC) heads west for about 2,255 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 14m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 38% of BNA-SLC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Salt Lake City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 341 tracked BNA-SLC flights, 83% left on time with an average delay of 9 min and a 0.9% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
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Frequently asked questions about BNA-SLC
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Salt Lake City (SLC) route, on-time performance is 83% with an average delay of 9 minutes, based on 341 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Salt Lake City is 0.88% across 341 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
Enter your flight number on FlightGuard for a real-time analysis based on 9 factors: weather at Salt Lake City, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel, airline punctuality and recent trends.
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.
