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Route Reliability

Las Vegas → New Orleans

LASMSY · 1,500 miles · Harry Reid International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
75%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
842
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines77%130 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines75%690 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (22 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

The late departure is the smart one here.

LAS–MSY flights departing between 9 PM–12 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 60% between 12–3 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

LAS–MSY flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Saturdays and just 65% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Not much between Spirit Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

On this route they all land within 75% to 77% on time. Pick on schedule and price.

Recent months have been rougher.

LAS–MSY flights arrived on time 70% 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%(131 flights)
  • Tue78%(104 flights)
  • Wed81%(102 flights)
  • Thu65%(138 flights)
  • Fri70%(130 flights)
  • Sat83%(87 flights)
  • Sun73%(146 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM62%(34 flights)
  • 6–9 AM90%(310 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM70%(40 flights)
  • 12–3 PM60%(20 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(175 flights)
  • 6–9 PM62%(247 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM92%(12 flights)
On-time trend by month
65%
May

Jun 68% → May 65% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202568%87
July 202568%81
August 202585%75
September 202586%72
October 202569%102
November 202573%74
December 202581%63
January 202689%44
February 202683%59
March 202662%52
April 202683%63
May 202665%66

Based on 842 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.