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Route Reliability

Phoenix → New Orleans

PHX–MSY · 1,301 miles · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
73%
Arrive within 15 minutes
12 min
Average arrival delay
0.5%
Cancelled
933
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.American Airlines77%380 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines71%549 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.

PHX–MSY flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 83% of the time, versus 64% between 6–9 PM.

Wednesdays have been rough.

PHX–MSY flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Saturdays and just 65% on Wednesdays. That gap is worth planning around.

American Airlines has a slight edge here.

American Airlines arrived on time 77% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 71%.

Slipping a little lately.

PHX–MSY flights arrived on time 72% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 75% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon73%(141 flights)
  • Tue78%(125 flights)
  • Wed65%(132 flights)
  • Thu68%(139 flights)
  • Fri80%(139 flights)
  • Sat83%(110 flights)
  • Sun69%(141 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM—(1 flights)
  • 6–9 AM83%(138 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM80%(215 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(180 flights)
  • 3–6 PM67%(58 flights)
  • 6–9 PM64%(333 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(2 flights)
On-time trend by month
66%
May

Jun 68% → May 66% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202568%62
July 202564%61
August 202583%36
September 202580%30
October 202573%82
November 202580%80
December 202566%89
January 202677%69
February 202682%88
March 202672%115
April 202677%112
May 202666%103

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Based on 933 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.