OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New Orleans to Miami

675 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSY–MIA arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.0%of scheduled flights

based on 1,415 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights30
  • American Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights1,234
  • Envoy Air
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel4.6%
    Flights151

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline50%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)8%
  • Late aircraft39%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly MSY → MIA

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 — 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 30 min · 2,015 flights
  • Middays73% on time · p90 45 min · 1,399 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 70 min · 93 flights · limited
  • Afternoons66% on time · p90 60 min · 678 flights
  • Evenings63% on time · p90 80 min · 991 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 78% on time.

  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 660 flights
  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 35 min · 656 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 50 min · 764 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 50 min · 746 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 738 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 55 min · 825 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 55 min · 787 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.