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Route Reliability

New Orleans → San Francisco

MSY–SFO · 1,911 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to San Francisco International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
525
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • United Airlines80% on time · 524 flights
  • American Airlines0% on time · 1 flights

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

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MSY–SFO flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 60% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MSY–SFO flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 72%.

Recent months have been rougher.

MSY–SFO flights arrived on time 71% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 86% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(81 flights)
  • Tue84%(63 flights)
  • Wed85%(75 flights)
  • Thu81%(79 flights)
  • Fri80%(79 flights)
  • Sat77%(62 flights)
  • Sun72%(82 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM90%(72 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM83%(125 flights)
  • 12–3 PM87%(121 flights)
  • 3–6 PM90%(69 flights)
  • 6–9 PM60%(134 flights)
On-time trend by month
46%
May

Jun 70% → May 46% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%30
July 202568%31
August 202577%30
September 202589%36
October 202593%55
November 202584%56
December 202581%42
January 202690%57
February 202686%50
March 202694%35
April 202673%55
May 202646%44

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 525 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.