The sector is held by Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BNA Nashville to MSY New Orleans
Nashville International, the United States, to Louis Armstrong, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 759 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 37m
- Door to door
- 8h 22m
What BNA to MSY looks like
The BNA to MSY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nashville BNA to New Orleans MSY is a short sector of 759 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 759 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 37m.
Nashville BNA is a major hub in the network held here, 201 scheduled destinations and 413.4 departures a day. New Orleans MSY has 77 destinations and 139.8 departures a day.
Nashville carries about 3 times the departures of New Orleans, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Nashville 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 BNA to MSY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BNA to MSY | 5.14 | 36 | Southwest Airlines |
| MSY to BNA | 4.86 | 34 | 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 5.1 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 70 departures a week on BNA 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 37m block time on BNA 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 BNA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BNA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BNA to MSY in the air, estimated | 97 min | 6h 07m |
| Formalities at MSY | 90 min | 7h 37m |
| Delivery run in New Orleans | 45 min | 8h 22m |
| Door to door | 502 min | 8h 22m |
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 BNA to MSY is 8h 22m.
A courier who leaves Nashville at 09:00 local is on the ground in New Orleans at about 10:37 local and at the door by 12:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in New Orleans, the last useful departure from Nashville is around 14:08 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. 38 of them join BNA to MSY.
| Connecting at | BNA to hub, flights a day | Hub to MSY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis MEM | 2.57 | 1 | 884 | 3h 18m |
| Atlanta ATL | 13.29 | 10.71 | 1,028 | 4h 00m |
| St Louis STL | 4 | 2 | 1,411 | 4h 09m |
| Houston IAH | 5 | 8.57 | 1,546 | 4h 19m |
| Houston HOU | 5.71 | 6.14 | 1,564 | 4h 21m |
| Dallas DAL | 8.14 | 6.43 | 1,702 | 4h 34m |
With 5.1 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.
38 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Memphis MEM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MEM the routing covers 884 km against the 759 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 18m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Atlanta ATL at 4h 00m and St Louis STL at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Nashville 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 BNA 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.
More pairs through BNA and MSY: Boston to Nashville, Seattle to Nashville, Detroit to Nashville, Nashville to Phoenix, Nashville to Miami, Houston to Nashville, Charlotte to Nashville, San Diego to Nashville.