Flights Pittsburgh → Nashville
PIT → BNA
Route overview
This flight route connects Pittsburgh to Nashville, operating with a Boeing 737-300 aircraft. With an on-time performance rate of 78%, the flights experience an average delay of 8.3 minutes and have completed a total of 261 flights. The destination airport in Nashville, which opened in 1937, handles over 18.9 million passengers annually, making it one of the busiest airports on this route.
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 Pittsburgh (PIT) → Nashville (BNA) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 330 flights monitored in recent months, 80% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 8 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.61%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 21.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Pittsburgh the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Nashville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Pittsburgh (PIT) to Nashville (BNA) heads south-west for about 743 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 21m.
Departures from Pittsburgh on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 38% of PIT-BNA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Pittsburgh the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Nashville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 330 tracked PIT-BNA flights, 80% left on time with an average delay of 8 min and a 0.6% 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 PIT-BNA
On the Pittsburgh (PIT) -> Nashville (BNA) route, on-time performance is 80% with an average delay of 8 minutes, based on 330 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Pittsburgh-Nashville is 0.61% 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.
