Flights Nashville → San Antonio
BNA → SAT
Route overview
This flight route connects Nashville to San Antonio, with an overall on-time performance rate of 81%, and a mean delay time of 5.2 minutes per flight. Over the past year, the route has seen 230 flights, linking two historically significant airports that opened in 1937 and 1942 respectively, serving millions of passengers annually with the destination airport welcoming approximately 9,462,449 travelers each year.
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) → San Antonio (SAT) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 289 flights monitored in recent months, 80% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 2.08%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.8/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At San Antonio the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to San Antonio: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to San Antonio (SAT) heads south-west for about 1,322 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 4m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 40% of BNA-SAT flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into San Antonio it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 289 tracked BNA-SAT flights, 80% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 2.1% 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-SAT
On the Nashville (BNA) -> San Antonio (SAT) route, on-time performance is 80% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 289 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-San Antonio is 2.08% across 289 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.
