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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Fort Lauderdale

MSYFLL · 673 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport

73
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
75%
Arrive within 15 minutes
12 min
Average arrival delay
2.1%
Cancelled
1,385
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines78%653 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines73%368 flights
  3. 3.JetBlue Airways73%364 flights

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MSY–FLL flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 57% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–FLL flights arrived on time 82% of the time on Wednesdays and just 67% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Spirit Airlines has a slight edge here.

Spirit Airlines arrived on time 78% of the time on this route; JetBlue Airways managed 73%.

Recent months have been rougher.

MSY–FLL flights arrived on time 69% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% 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
  • Mon70%(207 flights)
  • Tue80%(157 flights)
  • Wed82%(158 flights)
  • Thu76%(208 flights)
  • Fri75%(209 flights)
  • Sat80%(193 flights)
  • Sun67%(220 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM88%(17 flights)
  • 6–9 AM86%(487 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM86%(187 flights)
  • 12–3 PM66%(230 flights)
  • 3–6 PM57%(187 flights)
  • 6–9 PM68%(241 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM(3 flights)
On-time trend by month
73%
May

Jun 61% → May 73% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202561%83
July 202567%81
August 202586%88
September 202587%95
October 202578%108
November 202584%127
December 202576%139
January 202682%124
February 202675%133
March 202658%137
April 202676%140
May 202673%97

Based on 1,385 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.