New Orleans to Detroit flight

Flights from New Orleans to Detroit start at €125.81 and take 5h 51m at their fastest.

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Looking south from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance, Detroit, Mich. Photo shows Woodward Ave. extending south from Warren. 1 transparency : color.

The Flights from New Orleans to Detroit starts at €125.81 and takes 5h 51m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,558 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 51mDoor to door
  • 2h 41mMoving
  • €153.54 to €316.38From
  • 06:23 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 383.3 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€153.54 to €316.38 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €316.38Sat19
  2. about €308.12Sun20
  3. about €196.61Mon21
  4. about €203.69Tue22
  5. about €213.13Wed23
  6. about €275.08Thu24
  7. about €183.63Fri25
  8. about €215.49Sat26
  9. about €196.61Sun27
  10. about €153.54Mon28
  11. about €172.42Tue29
  12. about €178.32Wed30
  13. about €207.23Thu1
  14. about €155.31Fri2

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€125.81
  1. Frontier Airlines FA446407:302h 9m10:39New Orleans MSYColumbus CMH
  2. Rochester Institute of Technology RI638612:074h 1m16:08COTA Transit TerminalGreyhound Detroit Station

Changes at Columbus, with 88 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 9h 35mCO2 332.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€151.77
  1. Delta Air Lines DA265806:232h 41m10:04New Orleans MSYDetroit DTW

Door to door 5h 51mCO2 383.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Delta Air Lines€131.715h 32m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Delta Air Lines

The flight gets you into Detroit. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Detroit for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book New Orleans to Detroit

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €165.9390 days
  2. €99.2660 days
  3. €108.7045 days
  4. €128.1730 days
  5. €161.8021 days
  6. €155.3114 days
  7. €183.637 days
  8. €196.613 days
  9. €316.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €99.26.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 219 percent. The most expensive point is €316.38, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €196.61Sun
  2. €153.54Mon
  3. €172.42Tue
  4. €178.32Wed
  5. €207.23Thu
  6. €161.80Fri
  7. €215.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

New Orleans

Air
  • MSY

Detroit

Air
  • DTW
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,558 km against 1,513 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Nashville. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves New Orleans at 06:23 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about New Orleans to Detroit

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit take?

The Flight from New Orleans to Detroit takes 5h 51m door to door, of which 2h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 1,558 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit cost?

The Flight from New Orleans to Detroit starts at €125.81 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €152.95. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit?

1 operators run the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit: Delta Air Lines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit use?

The Flight from New Orleans to Detroit leaves from New Orleans MSY and arrives at Detroit DTW. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit?

Fares for the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €99.26. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 219 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from New Orleans to Detroit produce?

The Flight from New Orleans to Detroit produces about 383.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1558 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for New Orleans to Detroit on September 18, 2026: 1558 km of route against 1513 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €125.81, and 5h 51m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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