MSY to ORD flight delays
New Orleans, LA (MSY) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 837 miles
206 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
68.02%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.43%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
88 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
29 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from New Orleans to Chicago run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
This is a thin route — 206 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Every airline on MSY to ORD
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 | 60 | 72.88% | 1.67% | 64 min | — |
| American Airlines | 53 | 48% | 3.77% | 105 min | — |
| SkyWest Airlines | 51 | 67.35% | 3.92% | 86 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 35 | 84.38% | 0% | 87 min | — |
| Envoy Air | 7 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
The return leg
ORD to MSY Chicago back to New Orleans 70.5% on time DOther routes from New Orleans
Common questions
Are flights from New Orleans to Chicago usually delayed?
68.02% of flights on the MSY to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are MSY to ORD flights cancelled?
2.43% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 24 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When MSY to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 88 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 MSY to ORD 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 →