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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Nashville

MSY–BNA · 471 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Nashville International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
1,507
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines80% on time · 1,430 flights
  • Spirit Airlines69% on time · 77 flights

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

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–BNA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 60% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–BNA flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

MSY–BNA flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 86% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(232 flights)
  • Tue84%(199 flights)
  • Wed89%(196 flights)
  • Thu79%(235 flights)
  • Fri77%(229 flights)
  • Sat85%(158 flights)
  • Sun71%(246 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM94%(387 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(342 flights)
  • 12–3 PM73%(284 flights)
  • 3–6 PM75%(281 flights)
  • 6–9 PM60%(201 flights)
On-time trend by month
69%
May

Jun 74% → May 69% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%127
July 202575%126
August 202594%112
September 202595%120
October 202572%163
November 202573%138
December 202576%126
January 202694%113
February 202687%109
March 202675%119
April 202682%119
May 202669%123

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Based on 1,507 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.