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Route Reliability

Baltimore → New Orleans

BWIMSY · 998 miles · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
1,203
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines82%149 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines78%1,036 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (18 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

BWI–MSY flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 69% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

BWI–MSY flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Saturdays and just 70% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Spirit Airlines has a slight edge here.

Spirit Airlines arrived on time 82% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 78%.

Slipping a little lately.

BWI–MSY flights arrived on time 78% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 82% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon85%(183 flights)
  • Tue83%(144 flights)
  • Wed79%(142 flights)
  • Thu74%(183 flights)
  • Fri70%(181 flights)
  • Sat88%(141 flights)
  • Sun74%(212 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM97%(30 flights)
  • 6–9 AM93%(241 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(171 flights)
  • 12–3 PM72%(218 flights)
  • 3–6 PM72%(158 flights)
  • 6–9 PM69%(216 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM69%(152 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 63% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202563%107
July 202561%109
August 202586%101
September 202585%96
October 202584%112
November 202586%109
December 202578%113
January 202683%71
February 202684%81
March 202685%94
April 202675%100
May 202674%93

Based on 1,203 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.