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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Phoenix

MSYPHX · 1,301 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
77%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
935
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Southwest Airlines77%549 flights
  2. 2.American Airlines76%382 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 flights do better here.

MSY–PHX flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 65% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–PHX flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Wednesdays and just 66% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Not much between Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.

On this route they all land within 76% to 77% on time. Pick on schedule and price.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(141 flights)
  • Tue83%(127 flights)
  • Wed83%(132 flights)
  • Thu73%(139 flights)
  • Fri82%(139 flights)
  • Sat77%(108 flights)
  • Sun66%(141 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM97%(34 flights)
  • 6–9 AM90%(277 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(11 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(220 flights)
  • 3–6 PM66%(106 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(279 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 51% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202551%61
July 202564%59
August 202597%36
September 202580%30
October 202576%82
November 202578%81
December 202571%89
January 202683%70
February 202688%88
March 202679%115
April 202683%112
May 202674%104

Based on 935 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.