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Route Reliability

Nashville → New Orleans

BNA–MSY · 471 miles · Nashville International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

84
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
1,510
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines81% on time · 1,433 flights
  • Spirit Airlines77% on time · 77 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BNA–MSY flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 69% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BNA–MSY flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 74%.

Slipping a little lately.

BNA–MSY flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(230 flights)
  • Tue88%(199 flights)
  • Wed83%(199 flights)
  • Thu78%(232 flights)
  • Fri78%(228 flights)
  • Sat84%(156 flights)
  • Sun74%(247 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM95%(377 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(53 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(305 flights)
  • 3–6 PM75%(321 flights)
  • 6–9 PM75%(256 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM69%(179 flights)
On-time trend by month
61%
May

Jun 75% → May 61% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202575%126
July 202572%123
August 202586%114
September 202589%119
October 202581%164
November 202584%138
December 202578%126
January 202690%112
February 202684%110
March 202684%118
April 202687%119
May 202661%122

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Based on 1,510 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.