Route Reliability
New Orleans → Fort Lauderdale
MSY–FLL · 673 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport
- 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.Spirit Airlines78%653 flights
- 2.Southwest Airlines73%368 flights
- 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
- Mon70%(207 flights)
- Tue80%(157 flights)
- Wed82%(158 flights)
- Thu76%(208 flights)
- Fri75%(209 flights)
- Sat80%(193 flights)
- Sun67%(220 flights)
- 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)
Jun 61% → May 73% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 61% | 83 |
| July 2025 | 67% | 81 |
| August 2025 | 86% | 88 |
| September 2025 | 87% | 95 |
| October 2025 | 78% | 108 |
| November 2025 | 84% | 127 |
| December 2025 | 76% | 139 |
| January 2026 | 82% | 124 |
| February 2026 | 75% | 133 |
| March 2026 | 58% | 137 |
| April 2026 | 76% | 140 |
| May 2026 | 73% | 97 |
Same trip, other airports
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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.