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DEN → MSY

Denver International Airport Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

How punctual is this route?

On-time arrivals
77.3%
Less than 15 minutes late
Cancelled
0.6%
Of scheduled flights
Average delay when late
60 min
Flights arriving 15+ minutes late
Flights tracked
2,279
Scheduled flights in the period

What caused the delays

  • Late-arriving aircraft 54%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning) 30%
  • Air traffic control & airport 14%
  • Extreme weather 1%
  • Security 0%

Share of delay minutes airlines attributed to each cause (BTS).

On-time arrivals by month
Sep 2025 Aug 2026
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MonthOn timeFlights
September 2025 81.3% 155
October 2025 76.9% 225
November 2025 89.3% 197
December 2025 78.4% 192
January 2026 85.5% 173
February 2026 86.4% 206
March 2026 73.0% 229
April 2026 84.6% 216
May 2026 69.8% 206
June 2026 65.8% 163
July 2026 69.3% 167
August 2026 61.0% 150

Source: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time data, September 2025 – August 2026. Covers flights operated by reporting U.S. carriers. About our data

Airlines on this route

AirlineFlightsOn timeCancelledAvg. delay when late
Southwest Airlines 1,060 68.8% 0.7% 56 min
United Airlines 1,009 85.4% 0.2% 66 min
Frontier Airlines 210 81.0% 2.4% 74 min

Delay odds by flight

How often each flight number arrived 15 or more minutes late over the last year.

  • UA2273

    10% late · 365 flights

  • UA1541

    25% late · 363 flights

  • F92360

    19% late · 195 flights

  • UA250

    11% late · 161 flights

  • UA2183

    4% late · 83 flights

  • WN3301

    62% late · 61 flights

  • WN1232

    14% late · 58 flights

  • WN1962

    45% late · 58 flights

  • WN1538

    15% late · 55 flights

  • WN1642

    4% late · 52 flights

  • WN2833

    23% late · 47 flights

  • WN1483

    20% late · 46 flights

  • WN3199

    33% late · 42 flights

  • WN965

    14% late · 42 flights

  • WN2546

    12% late · 40 flights

  • WN1643

    37% late · 35 flights

  • WN2643

    45% late · 33 flights

  • WN2644

    53% late · 33 flights

  • WN2639

    18% late · 28 flights

  • WN443

    48% late · 28 flights

  • WN1670

    30% late · 27 flights

  • WN2407

    11% late · 27 flights

  • WN820

    41% late · 27 flights

  • WN1440

    23% late · 26 flights

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