Flights Nashville → Washington
BNA → DCA
Route overview
This flight route connects Nashville to Washington, operating with an Embraer RJ140 aircraft. With a 78% on-time performance rate and an average delay of 12.7 minutes, the service is generally reliable. The route serves one of Nashville's long-established airports, which opened in 1937, while the destination airport, established in 1938, handles 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) → Washington (DCA) route is operated by American Airlines. Across 1430 flights monitored in recent months, 78% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 4.13%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.4/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Washington the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Washington: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Washington (DCA) heads north-east for about 902 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 33m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 40% of BNA-DCA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Washington it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 1,430 tracked BNA-DCA flights, 78% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 4.1% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about BNA-DCA
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Washington (DCA) route, on-time performance is 78% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 1430 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Washington is 4.13% across 1430 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: American 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.
