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Southwest Airlines MSY to BNA on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
78%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.6%
9 flights
Avg arrival delay
12 min
47 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 2
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on MSY to BNA arrived on time 78% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.6% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (60%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 74.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 95.2% on time, 1.9% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 96.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 70.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 74.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 76.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 92.9% on time, 5.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 87.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 74.8% on time, 0.8% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 80.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 67.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 60.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 67.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft60%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)20%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion14%
  • Extreme weather5%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on MSY to BNA

1,427 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 9 cancelled, 1 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.