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Notable Aircraft at MSY Right Now

Widebodies, super-heavies, military traffic, and emergency squawks in the MSY pattern right now. If there's anything worth noticing, it surfaces here first.

MSY Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport with gate, terminal, and current status. Separate from the live radar above, which shows every aircraft in the sky whether or not it's on a public schedule.

Status Airline Flight Destination Sched Updated Gate
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Top Airlines at MSY Right Now

3 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 02:56 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Southwest Airlines
2
Unknown
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737 MAX 8 and AIRBUS HELICOPTERS EC-135/635 are tied at the top of the MSY pattern with 1 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 02:56 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
EC35
AIRBUS HELICOPTERS EC-135/635
1
B738
BOEING 737-800

About Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

MSY's busiest nonstop destination is ATL, at 309 flights a week. 707 scheduled destinations overall, served by 135 airlines. Based in New Orleans.

Elevation
4ft
Routes
707
Airlines
135
Busiest Route
MSY → ATL
309x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the MSY radar. Sort by any column. Click a row to open its tracker page with route arc, altitude profile, and live telemetry.

Callsign Route Type Dir Alt Speed Dist Squawk
WNWN 3173 MCO → MSY B738 3,800 261kt 5nm 1062
N911XJ EC35 1,300 117kt 8nm 0463
WNWN 3587 B38M 4,025 222kt 16nm 4667

Frequently Asked Questions

Aircraft positions refresh every few minutes. ADS-B is GPS-accurate, so what you see is within about 30 meters of the aircraft's position at broadcast time.

Altitude. Red on the ground, through green, teal, and blue for mid-altitudes, into violet above 40,000 feet. At a glance you can tell who just took off, who is climbing through the pattern, and who is cruising overhead.

They are inside the MSY radar radius but not landing or departing here. Passing through en route to another airport. We flag them so the numbers for MSY traffic actually reflect MSY traffic.

Click any aircraft on the map. You get its track line across the region and an altitude profile showing the climb, cruise, and descent.

A pulsing red circle indicates an emergency squawk: 7500 (hijack), 7600 (comm failure), or 7700 (general emergency). These are legally-required codes pilots set when something is wrong.

The radar shows live aircraft positions. Gate, terminal, and schedule status sit in the Board section above this one.

GPS-accurate via ADS-B, typically within 30 meters horizontally. Positions refresh every few minutes. When a signal drops (mountain terrain, certain oceanic corridors), the marker holds the last-known position instead of disappearing.