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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Orlando

MSY–MCO · 551 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Orlando International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
9 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
Cancelled
2,305
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines80%571 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines77%1,577 flights
  3. 3.Frontier Airlines75%157 flights

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–MCO flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 62% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–MCO flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Tuesdays and just 67% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Spirit Airlines has a slight edge here.

Spirit Airlines arrived on time 80% of the time on this route; Frontier Airlines managed 75%.

Recent months have been rougher.

MSY–MCO flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 82% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(362 flights)
  • Tue83%(287 flights)
  • Wed80%(284 flights)
  • Thu76%(337 flights)
  • Fri77%(368 flights)
  • Sat81%(275 flights)
  • Sun67%(364 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM93%(356 flights)
  • 6–9 AM92%(399 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(273 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(299 flights)
  • 3–6 PM62%(440 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(399 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM69%(111 flights)
On-time trend by month
70%
May

Jun 69% → May 70% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202569%214
July 202569%221
August 202573%153
September 202589%141
October 202583%215
November 202587%191
December 202579%182
January 202684%191
February 202682%212
March 202673%177
April 202676%201
May 202670%179

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Based on 2,305 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.