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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Las Vegas

MSYLAS · 1,500 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Harry Reid International Airport

88
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.1%
Cancelled
844
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines83%132 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines81%691 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (21 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MSY–LAS flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 57% between 6–9 PM.

Thursday is the weak spot.

MSY–LAS flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays. On Thursdays: 75%.

Not much between Spirit Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

On this route they all land within 81% to 83% on time. Pick on schedule and price.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 844 scheduled flights, only 0.1% were cancelled.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon81%(133 flights)
  • Tue87%(103 flights)
  • Wed89%(99 flights)
  • Thu75%(138 flights)
  • Fri77%(134 flights)
  • Sat88%(88 flights)
  • Sun76%(147 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(132 flights)
  • 6–9 AM92%(255 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM(8 flights)
  • 12–3 PM84%(76 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(145 flights)
  • 6–9 PM57%(179 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM83%(47 flights)
On-time trend by month
68%
May

Jun 73% → May 68% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%88
July 202579%80
August 202585%75
September 202582%73
October 202578%104
November 202588%77
December 202584%62
January 202689%44
February 202679%58
March 202689%52
April 202681%63
May 202668%66

Based on 844 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.