New Orleans to Denver nonstop
Yes: Southwest, United and Frontier fly direct from New Orleans (MSY) to Denver (DEN) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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New Orleans to Denver in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,062 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 45 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: busiest in February 2026 (52 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (34 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 36 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 50 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 46 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 43 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 39 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 52 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 52 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 50 flights a week
- May 2026: 46 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 38 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 38 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 34 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 45%, United 43%, Frontier 13% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 3,136 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $275 one way, median $200. 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 $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 2,960 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 3,922 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 3,698 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 3,136 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $200), 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? Denver to New Orleans nonstop.
Also nonstop from New Orleans (MSY)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 8 times a day
- Houston (IAH) about 7 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 6 times a day
- Dallas (DAL) about 6 times a day
- Austin (AUS) about 5 times a day
- Houston (HOU) about 5 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 5 times a day
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