Route Reliability
New Orleans → Dallas
MSY–DAL · 437 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Dallas Love Field
- 79%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 7 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.2%
- Cancelled
- 2,291
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 79% of the time across 2,291 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning-you made the right choice.
MSY–DAL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 61% between 9 PM–12 AM.
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
MSY–DAL flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Tuesdays and just 69% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.
Recent months have been rougher.
MSY–DAL flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon77%(330 flights)
- Tue89%(314 flights)
- Wed86%(314 flights)
- Thu76%(332 flights)
- Fri77%(333 flights)
- Sat78%(265 flights)
- Sun69%(365 flights)
- 3–6 AM93%(244 flights)
- 6–9 AM94%(403 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM86%(443 flights)
- 12–3 PM74%(346 flights)
- 3–6 PM68%(338 flights)
- 6–9 PM62%(386 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM61%(93 flights)
Jun 72% → May 69% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 72% | 163 |
| July 2025 | 73% | 165 |
| August 2025 | 81% | 178 |
| September 2025 | 89% | 178 |
| October 2025 | 79% | 221 |
| November 2025 | 78% | 196 |
| December 2025 | 82% | 190 |
| January 2026 | 85% | 178 |
| February 2026 | 87% | 187 |
| March 2026 | 72% | 208 |
| April 2026 | 77% | 193 |
| May 2026 | 69% | 196 |
Same trip, other airports
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Based on 2,291 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.