MSY to SAT flight delays
New Orleans, LA (MSY) San Antonio, TX (SAT) · 495 miles
26 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.
53.85%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
61 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
31 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from New Orleans to San Antonio arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
The two directions do not behave alike. SAT to MSY arrives on time 38.5 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. MSY as a whole runs 15.8 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.
Every airline on MSY to SAT
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 26 | 53.85% | 0% | 61 min | — |
The return leg
SAT to MSY San Antonio back to New Orleans 92.31% on time —Other routes from New Orleans
Common questions
Are flights from New Orleans to San Antonio usually delayed?
53.85% of flights on the MSY to SAT route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 5 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are MSY to SAT flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When MSY to SAT flights are late, how late are they?
About 61 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 SAT 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 →