Route Reliability
Dallas → New Orleans
DAL–MSY · 437 miles · Dallas Love Field to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- 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
- Mon80%(331 flights)
- Tue86%(315 flights)
- Wed78%(313 flights)
- Thu71%(336 flights)
- Fri74%(338 flights)
- Sat71%(260 flights)
- Sun75%(368 flights)
- 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)
Jun 61% → May 65% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 61% | 163 |
| July 2025 | 70% | 168 |
| August 2025 | 73% | 179 |
| September 2025 | 82% | 179 |
| October 2025 | 77% | 221 |
| November 2025 | 78% | 199 |
| December 2025 | 82% | 189 |
| January 2026 | 86% | 177 |
| February 2026 | 86% | 187 |
| March 2026 | 78% | 206 |
| April 2026 | 78% | 195 |
| May 2026 | 65% | 198 |
Same trip, other airports
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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.