Flights San Diego → Nashville
SAN → BNA
Route overview
The flight route from San Diego to Nashville operates with a 74% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 11.4 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 274 flights on this route connecting the historic origins of San Diego International Airport, which opened in 1928, and Nashville International Airport, established in 1937, serving approximately 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 San Diego (SAN) → Nashville (BNA) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 328 flights monitored in recent months, 75% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 11 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.83%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.6/100 (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 San Diego the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Nashville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from San Diego (SAN) to Nashville (BNA) heads east for about 2,812 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 56m.
Departures from San Diego on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 56% of SAN-BNA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing San Diego the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Nashville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 328 tracked SAN-BNA flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 11 min and a 1.8% 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 SAN-BNA
On the San Diego (SAN) -> Nashville (BNA) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 11 minutes, based on 328 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on San Diego-Nashville is 1.83% across 328 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.
