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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Miami

MSYMIA · 674 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Miami International Airport

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
11 min
Average arrival delay
1.9%
Cancelled
1,545
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.American Airlines80%1,440 flights
  2. 2.Spirit Airlines71%101 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (4 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–MIA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 85% of the time, versus 67% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–MIA flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays and just 69% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

American Airlines runs this route best.

American Airlines arrived on time 80% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 71%.

Ticking up lately.

MSY–MIA flights arrived on time 83% 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
  • Mon79%(226 flights)
  • Tue88%(202 flights)
  • Wed84%(204 flights)
  • Thu79%(217 flights)
  • Fri77%(233 flights)
  • Sat78%(205 flights)
  • Sun69%(225 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM78%(18 flights)
  • 6–9 AM85%(673 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(382 flights)
  • 12–3 PM69%(55 flights)
  • 3–6 PM71%(45 flights)
  • 6–9 PM67%(339 flights)
On-time trend by month
81%
May

Jun 70% → May 81% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%129
July 202575%125
August 202572%137
September 202578%109
October 202582%137
November 202588%138
December 202575%121
January 202679%126
February 202680%127
March 202681%120
April 202688%120
May 202681%123

Based on 1,545 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.