Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
New Orleans, United States — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from MSY to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from New Orleans.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston, United States | IAH | 489 km | 1h 02m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 684 km | 1h 16m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 712 km | 1h 18m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 719 km | 1h 19m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 759 km | 1h 22m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 785 km | 1h 24m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 886 km | 1h 31m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 1,048 km | 1h 43m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,052 km | 1h 44m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,083 km | 1h 46m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MSY
What is the airport code for New Orleans?
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport uses the IATA code MSY and the ICAO code KMSY. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport?
It sits at 29.9934° N, 90.2647° W, serving New Orleans in United States, at an elevation of 4 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
