BNA to MDW: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Nashville to Chicago?

The great-circle distance between Nashville International Airport (BNA) and Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) is 636 km (395 mi, 344 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from BNA to MDW?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 1h 20m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. MDW is roughly north of BNA.

How is the BNA to MDW route written in code?

The pair is written BNA-MDW in IATA codes and KBNA-KMDW in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Nashville International Airport is BNA (KBNA), Chicago Midway International Airport is MDW (KMDW).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

The two fields sit at almost the same height, within 21 ft (6 m) of each other.

Airlines flying BNA to MDW

1 airline appear on this route in the open route dataset, 1 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

A further 1 carrier sell this pair as a codeshare without operating it: FL.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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