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Route Reliability

St. Louis → New Orleans

STLMSY · 604 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

91
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
0.1%
Cancelled
733
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 84% of the time across 733 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

STL–MSY flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 69% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

STL–MSY flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Tuesdays and just 76% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 733 scheduled flights, only 0.1% were cancelled.

Slipping a little lately.

STL–MSY flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 89% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(114 flights)
  • Tue93%(100 flights)
  • Wed90%(99 flights)
  • Thu79%(114 flights)
  • Fri80%(112 flights)
  • Sat85%(65 flights)
  • Sun76%(128 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM(1 flights)
  • 6–9 AM92%(235 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM92%(102 flights)
  • 12–3 PM86%(28 flights)
  • 3–6 PM81%(83 flights)
  • 6–9 PM78%(177 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM69%(106 flights)
On-time trend by month
84%
May

Jun 67% → May 84% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%57
July 202575%57
August 202592%48
September 202594%47
October 202581%82
November 202583%57
December 202585%61
January 202689%63
February 202692%71
March 202679%67
April 202689%61
May 202684%61

Based on 733 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.