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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Denver

MSYDEN · 1,062 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Denver International Airport

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
2,263
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.United Airlines87%1,016 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines76%1,059 flights
  3. 3.Frontier Airlines71%188 flights

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–DEN flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 68% between 6–9 PM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

MSY–DEN flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Wednesdays. On Thursdays: 77%.

United Airlines has a clear lead on this route.

United Airlines arrived on time 87% of the time on this route; Frontier Airlines managed 71%.

Slipping a little lately.

MSY–DEN flights arrived on time 81% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% 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
  • Mon84%(363 flights)
  • Tue82%(256 flights)
  • Wed86%(283 flights)
  • Thu77%(374 flights)
  • Fri79%(364 flights)
  • Sat79%(231 flights)
  • Sun80%(377 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(295 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(462 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(303 flights)
  • 12–3 PM78%(382 flights)
  • 3–6 PM69%(349 flights)
  • 6–9 PM68%(442 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM87%(15 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 67% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%152
July 202573%159
August 202575%146
September 202583%155
October 202582%223
November 202587%198
December 202582%188
January 202684%173
February 202686%207
March 202683%228
April 202684%214
May 202676%205

Based on 2,263 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.