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Route Reliability

Tampa → New Orleans

TPA–MSY · 487 miles · Tampa International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
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. 1.Southwest Airlines82%853 flights
  2. 2.Spirit Airlines71%241 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.

TPA–MSY flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 59% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

TPA–MSY flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 73%.

Southwest Airlines runs this route best.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 82% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 71%.

Slipping a little lately.

TPA–MSY flights arrived on time 76% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(176 flights)
  • Tue83%(132 flights)
  • Wed86%(132 flights)
  • Thu80%(177 flights)
  • Fri79%(177 flights)
  • Sat84%(101 flights)
  • Sun73%(190 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM96%(287 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(130 flights)
  • 12–3 PM84%(111 flights)
  • 3–6 PM75%(276 flights)
  • 6–9 PM59%(162 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM66%(119 flights)
On-time trend by month
68%
May

Jun 72% → May 68% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202572%75
July 202576%72
August 202578%60
September 202586%63
October 202581%101
November 202590%111
December 202581%113
January 202680%90
February 202681%102
March 202679%119
April 202681%99
May 202668%80

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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.