Route Reliability
New Orleans → Phoenix
MSY–PHX · 1,301 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
- 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.Southwest Airlines77%549 flights
- 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
- Mon75%(141 flights)
- Tue83%(127 flights)
- Wed83%(132 flights)
- Thu73%(139 flights)
- Fri82%(139 flights)
- Sat77%(108 flights)
- Sun66%(141 flights)
- 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)
Jun 51% → May 74% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 51% | 61 |
| July 2025 | 64% | 59 |
| August 2025 | 97% | 36 |
| September 2025 | 80% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 76% | 82 |
| November 2025 | 78% | 81 |
| December 2025 | 71% | 89 |
| January 2026 | 83% | 70 |
| February 2026 | 88% | 88 |
| March 2026 | 79% | 115 |
| April 2026 | 83% | 112 |
| May 2026 | 74% | 104 |
Keep nerding
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.