The flight time from Nashville, Tennessee to New Orleans, Louisiana is:
1 hour, 10 minutes
In-air flight time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
From gate to gate: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Constant 500 mph: 56 minutes
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Flying time from Nashville, TN to New Orleans, LA
The total flight duration from Nashville, TN to New Orleans, LA is 1 hour, 10 minutes.
This is the average in-air flight time (wheels up to wheels down on the runway) based on actual flights taken over the past year, including routes like BNA to MSY. It covers the entire time on a typical commercial flight including take-off and landing.
If you're planning a trip, you should also factor in extra time for the plane to pull back from the gate and taxi to the runway, as well as reaching the destination gate after landing. If you include this extra time on the tarmac, the average total elapsed time from gate to gate flying from Nashville, TN to New Orleans, LA is 1 hour, 23 minutes.
Finally, pilots might want to estimate the flight time using an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 mph, which is equivalent to 805 km/h or 434 knots. If you don't add any extra time to increase or decrease speed for take-off and landing, then at constant speed your flight time would be 56 minutes.
If you're booking a flight, make sure you check the scheduled departure and arrival times. You should also factor in airport wait times and possible equipment or weather delays. If you're trying to figure out what time you'll arrive at the destination, you may want to see if there's a time difference between Nashville, TN and New Orleans, LA.
The calculation of flight time is based on the straight line distance from Nashville, TN to New Orleans, LA ("as the crow flies"), which is about 469 miles or 754 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Nashville, Tennessee.
It ends in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Your flight direction from Nashville, TN to New Orleans, LA is Southwest (-155 degrees from North).
The flight time calculator measures the average flight duration between points. It uses the great circle formula to compute the travel mileage.
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Average Timeline
Leaves BNA Nashville, TN 2 minutes late.
1 hour, 9 minutes in the air
Arrives MSY New Orleans, LA 1 minute early.
Flight Reliability By Airline ?
Flight Summary
The flight time from Nashville to New Orleans is 1 hour, 25 minutes. The time spent in the air is 1 hour, 9 minutes.
The flight distance from Nashville to New Orleans is 471 Miles.
Flight Time By Airline ?
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Tables and Explanations
Data Source
Our information is computed from the latest available data from the US Department of Transportation.
Average Timeline Timeline Chart
The average timeline contains the median time a flight spends in 3 stages. The first of these three stages is taxiing out which includes the time from the flight leaving the gate to taking off. The second stage is in the air, which includes the time spent from the flight leaving the ground to touching back down at the end of it's journey. The last stage is taxiing in, which is from when the flight touches down to the flight arriving at it's gate.
The average timeline also estimates on average of when the flight will leave and arrive relative to it's stated departure time.
| 2 minutes late |
| 11 minutes |
| 69 minutes |
| 4 minutes |
| 1 minute early |
Flight Reliability Reliability Chart
The reliability of an airline measures how often the airline's flights on this route are cancelled or delayed more than 20 minutes. For example, from Nashville to New Orleans, Southwest is 76% reliable, which means that Southwest flights are on time 76% of the time, and cancelled or delayed the remaining time.
| Southwest | 76% | 17% | 7% |
Each airline takes a different amount of time to fly between Nashville and New Orleans, this is due to different operational factors on the ground, as well as scheduling of planes. Each airline's flight time is split into three stages which are described above in the "Average Timeline" section. There are also miscellaneous operational issues which are included in the below total but are not accounted for in one of the three stages.
| Southwest | 11 | 69 | 4 | 85 |
Flights By Time of Day Flight Time By Day Chart
This one is pretty self explanatory, it represents the number of flights that leave the gate in a given hour of the day. The tricky thing here is that this is normally not a whole number since it is an average over 52 weeks. Partial numbers may indicate that a flight may be seasonal or may take off at different times due to different operational factors.
| 7am | 0.3 |
| 5pm | 0.04 |
| 6pm | 0.05 |
| 9am | 0.02 |
| 9pm | 0.36 |
| 2pm | 0.16 |
| 3pm | 0.1 |
| 8pm | 0.21 |
| 7pm | 0.01 |
| 12pm | 0.06 |
| 8am | 0.45 |
| 4pm | 0.07 |
| 10am | 0 |
| 11am | 0.07 |
Flights By Month Flights By Month Chart
The quantity of flights from Nashville to New Orleans that take off in a given month of the year. This number changes because some flights are seasonal, and almost all flights have uneven demand througout the year.
| January | 75 |
| February | 51 |
| March | 61 |
| April | 60 |
| May | 65 |
| June | 59 |
| July | 80 |
| August | 85 |
| September | 26 |
| October | 57 |
| November | 69 |
| December | 59 |
Flights By Day Of Week Flights By Day of Week Chart
The quantity of flights from Nashville to New Orleans that take off on a given day of the week. Some routes only have enough demand to sustain a few trips a week, while others have many flights a day. This number is also an average across the year, and hence may not be a whole number.
| Monday | 2.19 |
| Tuesday | 2.02 |
| Wednesday | 1.98 |
| Thursday | 2.1 |
| Friday | 2.17 |
| Saturday | 1.52 |
| Sunday | 2.38 |
Flight per Airline (per Week) Flights By Airline Chart
How many times an airline flies this route in a week. Different factors play into how often a carrier chooses to fly a given route including it's need to connect disparate routes, and demand.
| Southwest | 0 |
Flight Time By Time of Day Flight Time by Time of Day Chart
The total flight time varies by each hour of the day due to factors such as airport traffic. More flights leaving an airport may cause higher taxi in or taxi out times. See the description of the average timeline above for a deeper discussion of each of these times.
| 7am | 12 | 68 | 4 | 84 |
| 5pm | 12 | 71 | 4 | 86 |
| 6pm | 10 | 68 | 4 | 82 |
| 9am | 12 | 71 | 3 | 85 |
| 9pm | 11 | 67 | 4 | 84 |
| 2pm | 10 | 68 | 4 | 86 |
| 3pm | 10 | 73 | 4 | 86 |
| 8pm | 10 | 69 | 4 | 84 |
| 7pm | 11 | 74 | 4 | 91 |
| 12pm | 10 | 70 | 4 | 85 |
| 8am | 12 | 70 | 4 | 86 |
| 4pm | 10 | 70 | 4 | 84 |
| 10am | 10 | 71 | 4 | 85 |
| 11am | 10 | 73 | 3 | 87 |