Carrier route record

OHPHL→MSY

PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to New Orleans

Flights: 298
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on PHL to MSY sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 298 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on PHL to MSY from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.03%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.1%

Every carrier on PHL to MSY, 1,117 flights

These figures cover 298 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on PHL to MSY

PSA flew 298 of the 1,117 flights on PHL to MSY, about 27% of it. Its 75.2% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 88.6% to Frontier at 73.4%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to MSY
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	36	88.6%	46 min	2.78%	A
American Airlines	621	80.1%	83 min	1.61%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	298	75.2%	100 min	5.03%	B−
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	162	73.4%	78 min	1.85%	C

Departure window

When PSA 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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am51 flights72.9%
11am–2pm86 flights85.4%
2pm–5pm31 flights71.0%
5pm–8pm65 flights74.6%
8pm–5am65 flights65.5%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.4% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 65.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 86 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PHL to MSY through the year

Jul–Sep 2025118 flights73.2%
Oct–Dec 202549 flights60.4%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights88.2%
Apr–Jun 202648 flights73.9%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 75.2% on time across 298 flights.

PSA on PHL to MSY did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 88.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 60.4%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 75 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.4%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,971 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
10%

54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,971 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,971 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.03%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,089 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.5% on time across 297 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 298 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 PSA on PHL to MSY

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 282 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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