Nashville to Des Moines flight

Flights from Nashville to Des Moines start at €79.79 and take 4h 40m at their fastest.

NashvilleNashvilleDes MoinesDes Moines
In front and to the left is the Polk County Courthouse, and behind that is the Wells Fargo Tower, Hub Tower, 801 Grand, and other downtown buildings in the Des Moines Metro.

The Flights from Nashville to Des Moines starts at €79.79 and takes 4h 40m door to door, run by 1 operator over 870 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 40mDoor to door
  • 1h 30mMoving
  • €79.79 to €179.50From
  • 06:29 to 14:42First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 214.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€79.79 to €179.50 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €138.20Tue15
  2. about €160.62Wed16
  3. about €179.50Thu17
  4. about €160.03Fri18
  5. about €147.05Sat19
  6. about €136.43Sun20
  7. about €90.41Mon21
  8. about €91.59Tue22
  9. about €108.11Wed23
  10. about €130.53Thu24
  11. about €107.52Fri25
  12. about €121.09Sat26
  13. about €111.65Sun27
  14. about €79.79Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€73.89
  1. Allegiant Air AA320006:291h 30m07:59Nashville BNADes Moines DSM

Door to door 4h 40mCO2 214.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€126.99
  1. Southwest Airlines SA368807:301h 2m08:32Nashville BNASt. Louis STL
  2. Amtrak A202809:283h 48m13:16Union StationDes Moines Union Station

Changes at St. Louis, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 43mCO2 119.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Allegiant Air€73.894h 40m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Allegiant Air

The flight gets you into Des Moines. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Des Moines for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Des Moines Union Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Nashville to Des Moines

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €98.6790 days
  2. €73.3060 days
  3. €87.4645 days
  4. €70.3530 days
  5. €79.7921 days
  6. €79.7914 days
  7. €90.417 days
  8. €179.503 days
  9. €138.201 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €70.35.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 155 percent. The dearest point is €179.50, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €111.65Sun
  2. €79.79Mon
  3. €91.59Tue
  4. €108.11Wed
  5. €130.53Thu
  6. €107.52Fri
  7. €121.09Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Nashville

Air
  • BNA

Des Moines

Air
  • DSM
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 870 km against 845 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at St. Louis, Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, North Peoria. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Nashville at 06:29 and the last at 14:42, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Nashville to Des Moines

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines take?

The Flight from Nashville to Des Moines takes 4h 40m door to door, of which 1h 30m is spent moving. The route runs 870 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines cost?

The Flight from Nashville to Des Moines starts at €79.79 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €113.13. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines?

1 operators run the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines: Allegiant Air. Between them they file around 6 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines use?

The Flight from Nashville to Des Moines leaves from Nashville BNA and arrives at Des Moines DSM. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines?

Fares for the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €70.35. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 155 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Nashville to Des Moines produce?

The Flight from Nashville to Des Moines produces about 214.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 870 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Nashville to Des Moines on 14 September 2026: 870 km of route against 845 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €79.79, and 4h 40m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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