Charlotte (CLT) – New Orleans (MSY)
- Distance
- 1,048 km
- 651 mi · 566 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 58 min / 1 h 56 min
- Average gate to gate: CLT → MSY / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 132 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (78 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 436,194
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −19.2%
- Flights / week
- 65
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 74%
- 587,646 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 4
- AA, NK, OH
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from CLT
- 239°
- Heading from MSY
- 54°
- Halfway point
- 32.69, -85.74
- Great-circle km
- 1,048 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air CLT → MSY
- 1 h 35 min
- In the air MSY → CLT
- 1 h 28 min
- Clocks
- New Orleans is 1 h behind Charlotte
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 29,987 |
| Sep 2025 | 27,903 |
| Oct 2025 | 44,931 |
| Nov 2025 | 39,894 |
| Dec 2025 | 35,609 |
| Jan 2026 | 26,114 |
| Feb 2026 | 34,619 |
| Mar 2026 | 40,947 |
| Apr 2026 | 42,582 |
| May 2026 | 42,460 |
| Jun 2026 | 34,992 |
| Jul 2026 | 36,156 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 257 |
| Sep 2025 | 215 |
| Oct 2025 | 328 |
| Nov 2025 | 307 |
| Dec 2025 | 292 |
| Jan 2026 | 222 |
| Feb 2026 | 269 |
| Mar 2026 | 304 |
| Apr 2026 | 337 |
| May 2026 | 327 |
| Jun 2026 | 258 |
| Jul 2026 | 277 |
Airlines flying CLT–MSY nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| AAAmerican Airlines | 62 | 97% |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 2.2 | 3% |
| OHPSA Airlines | 0.6 | 1% |
| MQEnvoy Air | 0.5 | 0% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 1,766 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 561 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 431 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 376 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 96 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 90 flights
- Canadair CRJ 900 · 30 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 26 flights
Also carried: 27 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 80.4%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 19 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.3%
- Flights counted
- 3,423
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| AAAmerican Airlines | 80.2% | 18 min |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 82.3% | 37 min |
| OHPSA Airlines | 85.7% | 12 min |
| MQEnvoy Air | 92.3% | 15 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 35% · aircraft arriving late 53% · air traffic system 7% · weather 5% · security 1%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $284
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $240
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- American Airlines
- 79% of passengers · $305
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 3% of passengers · $137
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $222 · Q3 2025 $220 · Q4 2025 $237 · Q1 2026 $284).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $290, likely $251–$331
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 76% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 7.3%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 3% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 1,048 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.