Southwest Airlines ORD to BNA on-time performance
Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Chicago to Nashville · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
On-time arrivals
74%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.3%
4 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
64 min when late
Rank on route
#6 of 9
route average 70% on time
Key facts
- Southwest Airlines flights on ORD to BNA arrived on time 74% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
- 1.3% were cancelled, and 9% arrived an hour or more late.
- That ranks #6 of 9 airlines on this route, which averaged 70% on time overall.
- The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (56%).
On-time trend by month
Why this airline's flights were late
- Late-arriving aircraft56%
- Air traffic control & airport congestion23%
- Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)15%
- Extreme weather6%
- Security0%
Other airlines on ORD to BNA
- SkyWest Airlines62% on time · 34 min avg delay
- United Airlines71% on time · 23 min avg delay
- Envoy Air76% on time · 16 min avg delay
- Republic Airways77% on time · 15 min avg delay
- American Airlines70% on time · 40 min avg delay
- Frontier Airlines74% on time · 20 min avg delay
- Spirit Airlines79% on time · 8 min avg delay
- PSA Airlines100% on time · 0 min avg delay
Full ORD to BNA comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →
307 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 4 cancelled, 0 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.