The sector is held by Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAL Dallas to MSY New Orleans
Dallas Love Field, the United States, to Louis Armstrong, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 701 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 32m
- Door to door
- 8h 17m
What DAL to MSY looks like
The DAL to MSY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dallas DAL to New Orleans MSY is a short sector of 701 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 701 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 32m.
Dallas DAL is a major hub in the network held here, 190 scheduled destinations and 272.1 departures a day. New Orleans MSY has 77 destinations and 139.8 departures a day.
Dallas and New Orleans keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DAL to MSY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAL to MSY | 6.43 | 45 | Southwest Airlines |
| MSY to DAL | 6.29 | 44 | Southwest Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Southwest Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 6.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 89 departures a week on DAL to MSY, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 32m block time on DAL to MSY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DAL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DAL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DAL to MSY in the air, estimated | 92 min | 6h 02m |
| Formalities at MSY | 90 min | 7h 32m |
| Delivery run in New Orleans | 45 min | 8h 17m |
| Door to door | 497 min | 8h 17m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for DAL to MSY is 8h 17m.
A courier who leaves Dallas at 09:00 local is on the ground in New Orleans at about 10:32 local and at the door by 12:47 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in New Orleans, the last useful departure from Dallas is around 14:13 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 31 of them join DAL to MSY.
| Connecting at | DAL to hub, flights a day | Hub to MSY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston HOU | 16.43 | 6.14 | 872 | 3h 32m |
| Dallas DFW | 0.71 | 8.86 | 737 | 3h 36m |
| Memphis MEM | 1.43 | 1 | 1,241 | 3h 50m |
| Kansas City MCI | 5.57 | 0.71 | 1,855 | 4h 31m |
| St Louis STL | 6 | 2 | 1,852 | 4h 37m |
| Nashville BNA | 8 | 5.14 | 1,760 | 4h 54m |
With 6.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
31 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Houston HOU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.1 times a day.
Through HOU the routing covers 872 km against the 701 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 32m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 00m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dallas DFW at 3h 36m and Memphis MEM at 3h 50m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dallas, Dallas DFW is 18 km away by great circle and carries 287 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Dallas to New Orleans yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for DAL to MSY in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
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