Route Reliability
New Orleans → Detroit
MSY–DTW · 926 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
- 84%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 6 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.4%
- Cancelled
- 845
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Who flies it best
Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.
- 1.Delta Air Lines85%628 flights
- 2.Spirit Airlines79%194 flights
Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (23 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.
What the data says
Morning-you made the right choice.
MSY–DTW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 74% between 6–9 PM.
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
MSY–DTW flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Saturdays and just 78% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.
Delta Air Lines has a slight edge here.
Delta Air Lines arrived on time 85% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 79%.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon80%(130 flights)
- Tue90%(96 flights)
- Wed89%(104 flights)
- Thu82%(128 flights)
- Fri78%(133 flights)
- Sat93%(99 flights)
- Sun78%(140 flights)
- 6–9 AM89%(18 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM85%(381 flights)
- 12–3 PM86%(58 flights)
- 3–6 PM83%(332 flights)
- 6–9 PM74%(34 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM—(7 flights)
Jun 73% → May 88% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 73% | 70 |
| July 2025 | 83% | 70 |
| August 2025 | 84% | 57 |
| September 2025 | 82% | 51 |
| October 2025 | 90% | 92 |
| November 2025 | 87% | 76 |
| December 2025 | 81% | 58 |
| January 2026 | 79% | 66 |
| February 2026 | 86% | 86 |
| March 2026 | 77% | 79 |
| April 2026 | 90% | 67 |
| May 2026 | 88% | 58 |
Keep nerding
Based on 845 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.