Flights Salt Lake City → Nashville
SLC → BNA
Route overview
This flight route operates between Salt Lake City and Nashville, utilizing Canadair Regional Jet 900 aircraft. With a total of 267 flights recorded, the route maintains an on-time performance rate of 85%, with an average delay time of 5.2 minutes when delays do occur. The destination airport in Nashville, which opened in 1937, serves over 18,990,858 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 Salt Lake City (SLC) → Nashville (BNA) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 342 flights monitored in recent months, 83% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 7 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.58%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18/100 (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 Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Nashville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Salt Lake City (SLC) to Nashville (BNA) heads east for about 2,255 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 14m.
Departures from Salt Lake City on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 54% of SLC-BNA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Nashville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 342 tracked SLC-BNA flights, 83% left on time with an average delay of 7 min and a 0.6% 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 SLC-BNA
On the Salt Lake City (SLC) -> Nashville (BNA) route, on-time performance is 83% with an average delay of 7 minutes, based on 342 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Salt Lake City-Nashville is 0.58% across 342 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
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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.
