Direct flights from New Orleans (MSY) to Cincinnati / Covington (CVG): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. 86% of the last 7 tracked flights arrived within 15 minutes of schedule. The median arrival is on schedule. No cancellations were recorded across the 8 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 1,129 km, an estimated 1 hour 57 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at New Orleans and Cincinnati / Covington. Updated 3 November 2026 at 21:03 UTC.
Left MSY at 14:30, 52 min after its 13:38 slot.
Landing estimate from 122,249 tracked flights of under 2 hours that left 30 to 59 min late. The CVG board has not posted a landing time yet. How planes make up time
Checked MSY board 15:03 · CVG board 15:03
of the last 7 tracked MSY → CVG flights arrived within 15 minutes
Median arrival delay is +0 min. 0 of 8 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights SY3017 17:06 daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at MSY and CVG: a 42% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +9 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
next sweep in 120s
Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop MSY to CVG flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: New Orleans (MSY) to Cincinnati / Covington (CVG) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at MSY is the weaker end, route health score 89/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 1,129 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 110–127 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Sun Country Airlines runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at MSY and arrival-side delay at CVG, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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