Carrier route record
OOAUS→MSY
SkyWest Airlines · Austin to New Orleans
- Flights
- 433
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on AUS to MSY lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 433 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on AUS to MSY from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 429 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.2%
Every carrier on AUS to MSY, 1,934 flights
These figures cover 433 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on AUS to MSY
SkyWest flew 433 of the 1,934 flights on AUS to MSY, about 22% of it. Its 79.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 79.3% to Frontier at 75.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 433 | 79.3% | 78 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,497 | 75.3% | 49 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 4 | 75.0% | 37 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on AUS to MSY
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am69 flights92.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm112 flights73.4%
- 2pm–5pm194 flights73.6%
- 5pm–8pm58 flights93.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 73.4% on time against 93.1% for 5pm–8pm. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 194 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on AUS to MSY through the year
October is the best month on the calendar at 93.4% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. October was the busiest month here, with 61 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 86.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.3%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on AUS to MSY runs when it is late
SkyWest on AUS to MSY often beats the schedule: 154 of 429 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 89 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early154 flights35.9%
- Within 15 min186 flights43.4%
- 15–29 min late29 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late20 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 429 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on AUS to MSY
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 February 2026, 19 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2026 | 19 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 December 2025 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 May 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 April 2026 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 6,903 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 19% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,903 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,513 of the 6,903 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.23%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 445 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 78.4% on time across 433 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 433 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on AUS to MSY
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 433 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 79.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 429 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to MSY, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSY to AUS, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on AUS to MSY75.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.