Route Reliability
New Orleans → Tampa
MSY–TPA · 487 miles · Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Tampa International Airport
- 78%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 9 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.2%
- Cancelled
- 1,097
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Who flies it best
Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.
- 1.Southwest Airlines79%854 flights
- 2.Spirit Airlines71%240 flights
Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (3 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.
What the data says
Morning-you made the right choice.
MSY–TPA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 61% between 9 PM–12 AM.
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
MSY–TPA flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Tuesdays and just 65% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.
Southwest Airlines runs this route best.
Southwest Airlines arrived on time 79% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 71%.
Recent months have been rougher.
MSY–TPA flights arrived on time 71% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 82% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon80%(176 flights)
- Tue89%(131 flights)
- Wed80%(132 flights)
- Thu74%(178 flights)
- Fri80%(177 flights)
- Sat82%(99 flights)
- Sun65%(189 flights)
- 3–6 AM97%(63 flights)
- 6–9 AM96%(249 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM95%(77 flights)
- 12–3 PM76%(119 flights)
- 3–6 PM65%(276 flights)
- 6–9 PM69%(211 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM61%(87 flights)
Jun 67% → May 68% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 67% | 75 |
| July 2025 | 75% | 71 |
| August 2025 | 82% | 61 |
| September 2025 | 89% | 62 |
| October 2025 | 81% | 100 |
| November 2025 | 81% | 110 |
| December 2025 | 79% | 114 |
| January 2026 | 87% | 90 |
| February 2026 | 80% | 101 |
| March 2026 | 70% | 118 |
| April 2026 | 77% | 99 |
| May 2026 | 68% | 81 |
Keep nerding
Based on 1,097 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.