SJU to MSY flight delays
San Juan, PR (SJU) New Orleans, LA (MSY) · 1,720 miles
96 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
86.81%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
5.21%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
77 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
10 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 5.21% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 77 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from SJU overall run 9.4 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion SJU has, this route is largely escaping it.
Flights from San Juan to New Orleans keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
Every airline on SJU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 96 | 86.81% | 5.21% | 77 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MSY to SJU New Orleans back to San Juan 89.01% on time —Other routes from San Juan
Common questions
Are flights from San Juan to New Orleans usually delayed?
86.81% of flights on the SJU to MSY route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
How often are SJU to MSY flights cancelled?
5.21% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 52 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When SJU to MSY flights are late, how late are they?
About 77 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 SJU to MSY during July 2024 – July 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 →