OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to New Orleans

448 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–MSY arrive on time 63% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate63%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay75 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled4.1%of scheduled flights

based on 2,630 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Envoy Airbest
    On-time71%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel5.7%
    Flights437
  • American Airlines
    On-time62%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel3.7%
    Flights2,193

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft52%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DFW → MSY

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 79% on time.

  • Mornings79% on time · p90 35 min · 2,050 flights
  • Middays71% on time · p90 60 min · 1,913 flights
  • Afternoons61% on time · p90 75 min · 1,504 flights
  • Overnights57% on time · p90 90 min · 1,404 flights
  • Evenings56% on time · p90 90 min · 1,913 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 63% to 69% on time.

  • Tuesdays69% on time · p90 55 min · 1,168 flights
  • Saturdays68% on time · p90 65 min · 1,148 flights
  • Mondays67% on time · p90 70 min · 1,326 flights
  • Wednesdays67% on time · p90 70 min · 1,184 flights
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 75 min · 1,310 flights
  • Thursdays63% on time · p90 70 min · 1,321 flights
  • Sundays63% on time · p90 75 min · 1,327 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.