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Southwest Airlines BNA to PHL on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Nashville to Philadelphia · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
69%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.1%
10 flights
Avg arrival delay
17 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 6
route average 74% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on BNA to PHL arrived on time 69% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.1% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 74% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (51%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 69.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 80.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 89.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 63.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 76.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 73.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.5% on time, 4.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 73.0% on time, 4.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 74.3% on time, 1.3% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 67.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 55.7% on time, 1.3% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 50.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 44.0% on time, 2.2% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft51%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)28%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion17%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on BNA to PHL

Full BNA to PHL comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

934 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 10 cancelled, 3 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.