Route Reliability
Kansas City → New Orleans
MCI–MSY · 690 miles · Kansas City International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- 77%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 8 min
- Average arrival delay
- 0.3%
- Cancelled
- 381
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 77% of the time across 381 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning-you made the right choice.
MCI–MSY flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 71% between 3–6 PM.
Saturdays have been rough.
MCI–MSY flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Tuesdays and just 65% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.
It basically never cancels.
Out of 381 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.
Recent months have been rougher.
MCI–MSY flights arrived on time 74% 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
- Mon81%(53 flights)
- Tue86%(42 flights)
- Wed77%(43 flights)
- Thu80%(55 flights)
- Fri70%(54 flights)
- Sat65%(52 flights)
- Sun79%(80 flights)
- 3–6 AM—(7 flights)
- 6–9 AM85%(27 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM100%(21 flights)
- 12–3 PM79%(148 flights)
- 3–6 PM71%(160 flights)
- 6–9 PM—(8 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM—(8 flights)
Jun 65% → May 63% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 65% | 34 |
| July 2025 | 74% | 35 |
| August 2025 | 58% | 24 |
| September 2025 | 91% | 21 |
| October 2025 | 79% | 33 |
| November 2025 | 90% | 30 |
| December 2025 | 68% | 31 |
| January 2026 | 90% | 31 |
| February 2026 | 86% | 36 |
| March 2026 | 83% | 35 |
| April 2026 | 77% | 34 |
| May 2026 | 63% | 35 |
Keep nerding
Based on 381 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.