OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

MSYATL

New Orleans to Atlanta

425 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSY–ATL arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled2.0%of scheduled flights

based on 4,223 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Linesbest
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel2.1%
    Flights3,303
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel2.0%
    Flights452
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.7%
    Flights468

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)24%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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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.