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Route Reliability

New Orleans → Raleigh–Durham

MSY–RDU · 779 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Raleigh–Durham International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
1.3%
Cancelled
78
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Spirit Airlines79% on time · 44 flights
  • Southwest Airlines83% on time · 30 flights
  • Frontier Airlines100% on time · 4 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MSY–RDU flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 64% between 12–3 PM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

MSY–RDU flights arrived on time 84% of the time on Sundays. On Thursdays: 73%.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon—(1 flights)
  • Tue—(0 flights)
  • Wed—(1 flights)
  • Thu73%(22 flights)
  • Fri—(2 flights)
  • Sat—(0 flights)
  • Sun84%(51 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM97%(31 flights)
  • 12–3 PM64%(11 flights)
  • 3–6 PM74%(34 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
85%
Oct

Jun 93% → Oct 85% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202593%14
July 202558%12
August 202592%13
September 202592%12
October 202585%13

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Based on 78 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.