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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Newark

MSY–EWR · 1,167 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
2.5%
Cancelled
1,212
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • United Airlines84% on time · 1,158 flights
  • Spirit Airlines61% on time · 49 flights
  • Frontier Airlines100% 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 flights do better here.

MSY–EWR flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 67% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–EWR flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 78%.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(168 flights)
  • Tue88%(162 flights)
  • Wed86%(162 flights)
  • Thu78%(182 flights)
  • Fri85%(171 flights)
  • Sat84%(154 flights)
  • Sun78%(178 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM91%(314 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM92%(284 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(208 flights)
  • 3–6 PM67%(24 flights)
  • 6–9 PM76%(347 flights)
On-time trend by month
97%
May

Jun 75% → May 97% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202575%83
July 202563%62
August 202566%68
September 202586%73
October 202571%113
November 202572%109
December 202587%118
January 202693%103
February 202696%98
March 202685%121
April 202695%119
May 202697%110

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Based on 1,212 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.