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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Charlotte

MSY–CLT · 650 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Charlotte Douglas International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
1.5%
Cancelled
1,769
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines84% on time · 1,680 flights
  • Spirit Airlines86% on time · 84 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-you made the right choice.

MSY–CLT flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 67% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–CLT flights arrived on time 95% of the time on Wednesdays and just 78% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Ticking up lately.

MSY–CLT flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 82% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(277 flights)
  • Tue87%(222 flights)
  • Wed95%(218 flights)
  • Thu83%(267 flights)
  • Fri84%(272 flights)
  • Sat80%(211 flights)
  • Sun78%(274 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM93%(61 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(396 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM86%(496 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(247 flights)
  • 3–6 PM82%(333 flights)
  • 6–9 PM67%(208 flights)
On-time trend by month
83%
May

Jun 79% → May 83% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202579%151
July 202579%165
August 202582%128
September 202591%107
October 202585%164
November 202586%153
December 202580%146
January 202685%111
February 202682%134
March 202683%151
April 202690%168
May 202683%163

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Based on 1,769 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.