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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Dallas

MSYDAL · 437 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Dallas Love Field

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
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

On-time by weekday
  • Mon77%(330 flights)
  • Tue89%(314 flights)
  • Wed86%(314 flights)
  • Thu76%(332 flights)
  • Fri77%(333 flights)
  • Sat78%(265 flights)
  • Sun69%(365 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 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)
On-time trend by month
69%
May

Jun 72% → May 69% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202572%163
July 202573%165
August 202581%178
September 202589%178
October 202579%221
November 202578%196
December 202582%190
January 202685%178
February 202687%187
March 202672%208
April 202677%193
May 202669%196

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.