The sector is held by NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MSY New Orleans to HOU Houston
Louis Armstrong, the United States, to William P Hobby, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7 times a day
- Great circle
- 486 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 13m
- Door to door
- 7h 58m
What MSY to HOU looks like
The MSY to HOU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
New Orleans MSY to Houston HOU is a short sector of 486 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 486 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 13m.
New Orleans MSY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 77 scheduled destinations and 139.8 departures a day. Houston HOU has 145 destinations and 205.5 departures a day.
New Orleans and Houston 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 MSY to HOU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSY to HOU | 7 | 49 | NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
| HOU to MSY | 6.14 | 43 | NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 7 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 92 departures a week on MSY to HOU, 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 13m block time on MSY to HOU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MSY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MSY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MSY to HOU in the air, estimated | 73 min | 5h 43m |
| Formalities at HOU | 90 min | 7h 13m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 7h 58m |
| Door to door | 478 min | 7h 58m |
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 MSY to HOU is 7h 58m.
A courier who leaves New Orleans at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston at about 10:13 local and at the door by 12:28 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Houston, the last useful departure from New Orleans is around 14:32 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 MSY to HOU.
| Connecting at | MSY to hub, flights a day | Hub to HOU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas DAL | 6.29 | 16.43 | 1,087 | 3h 51m |
| Memphis MEM | 1 | 2.71 | 1,342 | 3h 59m |
| Dallas DFW | 9.29 | 1.29 | 1,117 | 4h 09m |
| Kansas City MCI | 0.57 | 3 | 2,187 | 4h 47m |
| St Louis STL | 2 | 5.29 | 2,082 | 4h 55m |
| Atlanta ATL | 10.71 | 4.29 | 1,802 | 4h 56m |
With 7 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 Dallas DAL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.3 times a day.
Through DAL the routing covers 1,087 km against the 486 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 51m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 38m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Memphis MEM at 3h 59m and Dallas DFW at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston IAH is 38 km away by great circle and carries 197 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan New Orleans to Houston 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 MSY to HOU 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 MSY and HOU: Houston to Phoenix, San Diego to Houston, El Paso to Houston, Houston to Dallas, Houston to Indianapolis, Houston to Las Vegas, Birmingham to Houston, Tijuana to Houston.