MSY New Orleans

How deep the MSY board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MSY. This reads the same 77 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 54of the 77 destinations are flown by one airline
• 42destinations run less than once a day
• 13destinations have four or more departures a day
• 26%of the destinations name Southwest Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MSY

28 airlines appear on the MSY board and they do not hold it evenly. Southwest Airlines is on 20 of the 77 destinations, 26 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 79.4 of the 139.8 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is NetJets Aviation on 16 destinations. 16 of the 28 airlines at MSY appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at MSY: one airline on 26 per cent of the destinations and the other 74 per cent spread across 27 airlines. A cancellation inside the Southwest Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 57 destinations Southwest Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the MSY board is daily

Of the 77 destinations, 35 are flown at least once a day and 42 are not, 20 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MSY board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MSY to Westhampton Beach (FOK) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 42.4 of the 139.8 departures a day, 30.3 per cent of the whole board. With 54.5 per cent of the 77 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Alexandria AEX	the United States	Nordwind Airlines	1	265	plan this
Atlanta PDK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	708	plan this
Bozeman BZN	the United States	Executive Jet Management	1	2,524	plan this
Cincinnati LUK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,145	plan this
Fort Myers RSW	the United States	United Airlines	1	917	plan this
Fort Smith FSM	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	708	plan this
Greenville PGV	the United States	Sun Country Airlines	1	1,355	plan this
Hutchinson HUT	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,138	plan this
Lake Charles LCH	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	286	plan this
Lakeland LAL	the United States	Flexjet	1	832	plan this

The ten destinations out of MSY where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 29 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MSY

The desk holds the return direction for 38 of the 77 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into MSY runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Greenville (GSP) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and London (LHR) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 3.3 a day back into MSY against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MSY

MSY keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at MSY, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at MSY

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from MSY that lands inside it leaves around 08:03, on a modelled block of 9h 27m. Those one departure times out of MSY are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where MSY turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 7 airport pair pages that start or end at MSY, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are New Orleans to Houston (IAH), New Orleans to Houston (HOU) and New Orleans to Dallas (DAL).

Six courier postings name MSY as the airport a courier here flies from: New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MSY already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 77 destinations above.