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Route Reliability

Raleigh–Durham → New Orleans

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

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
70%
Arrive within 15 minutes
20 min
Average arrival delay
2.6%
Cancelled
78
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Spirit Airlines79% on time · 44 flights
  • Southwest Airlines53% 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.

RDU–MSY flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 40% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

RDU–MSY flights arrived on time 77% of the time on Thursdays. On Sundays: 64%.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon—(1 flights)
  • Tue—(0 flights)
  • Wed—(1 flights)
  • Thu77%(22 flights)
  • Fri—(2 flights)
  • Sat—(0 flights)
  • Sun64%(50 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM—(2 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM100%(11 flights)
  • 12–3 PM74%(19 flights)
  • 3–6 PM65%(34 flights)
  • 6–9 PM40%(10 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
Oct

Jun 77% → Oct 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202577%13
July 202525%12
August 202577%13
September 202575%12
October 202577%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.