Nashville (BNA) – Philadelphia (PHL)
- Distance
- 1,086 km
- 675 mi · 587 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h / 2 h 12 min
- Average gate to gate: BNA → PHL / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 136 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (81 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 610,682
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −5.7%
- Flights / week
- 109
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 79%
- 771,135 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 7
- WN, AA, OH
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from BNA
- 64°
- Heading from PHL
- 251°
- Halfway point
- 38.14, -81.11
- Great-circle km
- 1,084 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air BNA → PHL
- 1 h 35 min
- In the air PHL → BNA
- 1 h 43 min
- Clocks
- Philadelphia is 1 h ahead of Nashville
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 5 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 62,367 |
| Sep 2025 | 59,401 |
| Oct 2025 | 69,602 |
| Nov 2025 | 51,012 |
| Dec 2025 | 42,644 |
| Jan 2026 | 30,850 |
| Feb 2026 | 32,681 |
| Mar 2026 | 47,457 |
| Apr 2026 | 48,935 |
| May 2026 | 54,623 |
| Jun 2026 | 56,274 |
| Jul 2026 | 54,836 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 532 |
| Sep 2025 | 511 |
| Oct 2025 | 575 |
| Nov 2025 | 465 |
| Dec 2025 | 401 |
| Jan 2026 | 359 |
| Feb 2026 | 379 |
| Mar 2026 | 480 |
| Apr 2026 | 479 |
| May 2026 | 488 |
| Jun 2026 | 505 |
| Jul 2026 | 499 |
Airlines flying BNA–PHL nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 35 | 42% |
| AAAmerican Airlines | 40 | 35% |
| OHPSA Airlines | 17 | 9% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 5.1 | 6% |
| YXRepublic Airline | 7.6 | 4% |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 2.3 | 2% |
| PTPiedmont Airlines | 2.1 | 1% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 1,415 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 851 flights
- Canadair CRJ 900 · 805 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 786 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 445 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 438 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 396 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-200n · 140 flights
Also carried: 218 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 74.6%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 20 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 2.6%
- Flights counted
- 5,692
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| AAAmerican Airlines | 75.1% | 24 min |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 72.6% | 15 min |
| OHPSA Airlines | 76% | 22 min |
| YXRepublic Airline | 81.7% | 12 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 66.2% | 28 min |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 78.8% | 12 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 28% · aircraft arriving late 54% · air traffic system 15% · weather 3% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $260
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $209
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- American Airlines
- 58% of passengers · $291
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 13% of passengers · $131
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $213 · Q3 2025 $175 · Q4 2025 $207 · Q1 2026 $260).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $265, likely $230–$303
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 100% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 4.4%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 6% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 1,084 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.