IAD to MSY flight delays
Washington, VA (IAD) New Orleans, LA (MSY) · 955 miles
44 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
This route flew fewer than 50 times in the period, which is too few for an on-time rate to mean anything. The figures below are shown as recorded, but the route is not graded.
75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
102 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
26 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The two directions do not behave alike. MSY to IAD arrives on time 13.6 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This route does worse than its own airport. IAD as a whole runs 7.9 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Flights from Washington to New Orleans run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Every airline on IAD to MSY
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 43 | 74.42% | 0% | 102 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
The return leg
MSY to IAD New Orleans back to Washington 88.64% on time —Other routes from Washington
Common questions
Are flights from Washington to New Orleans usually delayed?
75% of flights on the IAD to MSY route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
How often are IAD to MSY flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When IAD to MSY flights are late, how late are they?
About 102 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on IAD to MSY during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →