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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Kansas City

MSY–MCI · 690 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Kansas City International Airport

88
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
381
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 81% of the time across 381 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–MCI flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 39% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–MCI flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 381 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Ticking up lately.

MSY–MCI flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 80% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon85%(53 flights)
  • Tue88%(43 flights)
  • Wed86%(44 flights)
  • Thu85%(54 flights)
  • Fri78%(54 flights)
  • Sat83%(52 flights)
  • Sun71%(80 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM95%(43 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(175 flights)
  • 12–3 PM86%(109 flights)
  • 3–6 PM47%(19 flights)
  • 6–9 PM39%(18 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM63%(16 flights)
On-time trend by month
71%
May

Jun 74% → May 71% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%35
July 202586%35
August 202583%24
September 202595%21
October 202561%33
November 202587%30
December 202581%31
January 202677%31
February 202683%35
March 202694%36
April 202688%34
May 202671%35

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Based on 381 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.