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Route Reliability

Portland → New Orleans

PDXMSY · 2,051 miles · Portland International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

97
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
93%
Arrive within 15 minutes
11 min early
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
114
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Alaska Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 93% of the time across 114 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Friday is doing you no favors.

PDX–MSY flights arrived on time 100% of the time on Wednesdays and just 83% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon94%(18 flights)
  • Tue94%(17 flights)
  • Wed100%(12 flights)
  • Thu83%(18 flights)
  • Fri83%(18 flights)
  • Sat100%(13 flights)
  • Sun100%(17 flights)
On-time trend by month
91%
May

Jan 94% → May 91% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
January 202694%17
February 202692%25
March 202697%30
April 202690%30
May 202691%11

Based on 114 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.