New Orleans to Washington nonstop
Yes: United, Republic and Frontier fly direct from New Orleans (MSY) to Washington (IAD) about 10 times a week, year-round.
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New Orleans to Washington in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 955 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 30 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 May 2026 (16 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (10 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 11 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 12 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 14 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 11 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 10 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 13 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 12 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 14 flights a week
- May 2026: 16 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 10 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 11 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 10 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 94%, Republic 3% (regional operator), Frontier 3% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 979 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $325 one way, median $225. 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 $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 860 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 1,102 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 876 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $325, 979 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $200 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $250), 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? Washington 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
- Denver (DEN) about 5 times a day
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