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Route Reliability

Newark → New Orleans

EWR–MSY · 1,167 miles · Newark Liberty International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
2.2%
Cancelled
1,211
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • United Airlines80% on time · 1,158 flights
  • Spirit Airlines64% on time · 48 flights
  • Frontier Airlines80% on time · 5 flights

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

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

EWR–MSY flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 64% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

EWR–MSY flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays and just 70% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Ticking up lately.

EWR–MSY flights arrived on time 86% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon81%(171 flights)
  • Tue88%(162 flights)
  • Wed83%(162 flights)
  • Thu74%(181 flights)
  • Fri80%(172 flights)
  • Sat82%(153 flights)
  • Sun70%(181 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM90%(145 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM83%(152 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(311 flights)
  • 3–6 PM74%(344 flights)
  • 6–9 PM64%(11 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM75%(219 flights)
On-time trend by month
86%
May

Jun 74% → May 86% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%81
July 202575%63
August 202575%68
September 202582%74
October 202568%112
November 202574%112
December 202572%116
January 202688%104
February 202684%101
March 202680%122
April 202692%119
May 202686%110

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 1,211 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.