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Route Reliability

Dallas → New Orleans

DALMSY · 437 miles · Dallas Love Field to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

79
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
2,293
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 76% of the time across 2,293 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–MSY flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 57% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Thursdays have been rough.

DAL–MSY flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Tuesdays and just 71% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–MSY flights arrived on time 74% 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
  • Mon80%(331 flights)
  • Tue86%(315 flights)
  • Wed78%(313 flights)
  • Thu71%(336 flights)
  • Fri74%(338 flights)
  • Sat71%(260 flights)
  • Sun75%(368 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM94%(533 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(359 flights)
  • 12–3 PM73%(404 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(397 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(385 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM57%(183 flights)
On-time trend by month
65%
May

Jun 61% → May 65% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202561%163
July 202570%168
August 202573%179
September 202582%179
October 202577%221
November 202578%199
December 202582%189
January 202686%177
February 202686%187
March 202678%206
April 202678%195
May 202665%198

Based on 2,293 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.