Houston to New Orleans nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Houston (HOU) to New Orleans (MSY) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Houston to New Orleans in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 303 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 10 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 44 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 41 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 46 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 46 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 43 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 42 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 47 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 45 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 45 flights a week
- May 2026: 44 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 45 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 45 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 38 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,790 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $275 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $275, 2,513 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 2,819 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 2,456 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $275, 2,790 tickets
Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? New Orleans to Houston nonstop.
Other airports near Houston with nonstops to New Orleans
Within about 100 miles of William P. Hobby Airport
Also nonstop from Houston (HOU)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Dallas (DAL) about 11 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 6 times a day
- Chicago (MDW) about 5 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 5 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 5 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 5 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 5 times a day
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