New Orleans to St Louis flight

Flights from New Orleans to St Louis start at €85.69 and take 5h 2m at their fastest.

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Aerial view of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. View is to the west across the Mississippi River.

The Flights from New Orleans to St Louis starts at €85.69 and takes 5h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 993 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 2mDoor to door
  • 1h 52mMoving
  • €113.42 to €244.40From
  • 06:36 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 244.3 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.

€113.42 to €244.40 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 €204.87Sat19
  2. about €244.40Sun20
  3. about €159.44Mon21
  4. about €160.03Tue22
  5. about €146.46Wed23
  6. about €227.29Thu24
  7. about €157.67Fri25
  8. about €137.02Sat26
  9. about €138.20Sun27
  10. about €119.32Mon28
  11. about €134.07Tue29
  12. about €144.69Wed30
  13. about €157.08Thu1
  14. about €113.42Fri2

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€85.69
  1. Southwest Airlines SA865106:361h 52m08:28New Orleans MSYSt. Louis STL

Door to door 5h 2mCO2 244.3 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
Southwest Airlines€85.694h 50m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Southwest Airlines

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

A hotel room

A room in St Louis for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book New Orleans to St Louis

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

  1. €138.7990 days
  2. €67.4060 days
  3. €83.3345 days
  4. €103.3930 days
  5. €116.3721 days
  6. €113.4214 days
  7. €157.677 days
  8. €159.443 days
  9. €204.871 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €67.40.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 204 percent. The most expensive point is €204.87, 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. €138.20Sun
  2. €119.32Mon
  3. €134.07Tue
  4. €144.69Wed
  5. €157.08Thu
  6. €116.37Fri
  7. €137.02Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

New Orleans

Air
  • MSY

St. Louis

Air
  • STL
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 993 km against 964 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 Kansas City, Nashville, Atlanta, Tulsa. 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 06:36 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 St Louis

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 St Louis take?

The Flight from New Orleans to St Louis takes 5h 2m door to door, of which 1h 52m is spent moving. The route runs 993 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 St Louis cost?

The Flight from New Orleans to St Louis starts at €85.69 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €144.69. 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 St Louis?

1 operators run the Flight from New Orleans to St Louis: Southwest Airlines. 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 St Louis use?

The Flight from New Orleans to St Louis leaves from New Orleans MSY and arrives at St. Louis STL. 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 St Louis?

Fares for the Flight from New Orleans to St Louis bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €67.40. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 204 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 St Louis produce?

The Flight from New Orleans to St Louis produces about 244.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 993 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 St Louis on September 18, 2026: 993 km of route against 964 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €85.69, and 5h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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