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Cheap Flights from New Orleans to San Antonio (MSY-SAT)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from New Orleans to San Antonio that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Thu, Nov 6 - Mon, Nov 10
American Airlines Logo
8:01 pm - 11:50 pmMSY-SAT
3h 49m1 stop
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9:14 am - 12:59 pmSAT-MSY
3h 45m1 stop
$160American Airlines
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Fri, Nov 14 - Wed, Nov 19
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 12:04 pmMSY-SAT
5h 04m1 stop
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3:00 pm - 7:08 pmSAT-MSY
4h 08m1 stop
$165American Airlines
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Sun, Dec 21 - Thu, Dec 25
Delta Logo
5:15 am - 10:11 amMSY-SAT
4h 56m1 stop
Delta Logo
11:16 am - 4:21 pmSAT-MSY
5h 05m1 stop
$171Delta
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Thu, Nov 6 - Mon, Nov 10
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:40 am - 6:32 pmMSY-SAT
8h 52m1 stop
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8:10 pm - 2:47 pmSAT-MSY
18h 37m2 stops
$184Spirit Airlines
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Fri, Nov 14 - Wed, Nov 19
Southwest Logo
7:20 am - 11:45 amMSY-SAT
4h 25m1 stop
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1:15 pm - 2:40 pmSAT-MSY
1h 25mnonstop
$194Southwest
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Thu, Nov 6 - Mon, Nov 10
United Airlines Logo
5:15 am - 8:48 amMSY-SAT
3h 33m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
9:45 am - 1:09 pmSAT-MSY
3h 24m1 stop
$195United Airlines
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Wed, Nov 5 - Fri, Nov 7
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:32 am - 6:32 pmMSY-SAT
7h 00m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:37 pm - 9:34 amSAT-MSY
13h 57m1 stop
$197Spirit Airlines
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Fri, Nov 7 - Mon, Nov 10
United Airlines Logo
5:17 pm - 10:56 pmMSY-SAT
5h 39m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
9:45 am - 1:09 pmSAT-MSY
3h 24m1 stop
$203United Airlines
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Wed, Nov 12 - Fri, Nov 28
Southwest Logo
3:20 pm - 5:00 pmMSY-SAT
1h 40mnonstop
Southwest Logo
5:25 am - 11:25 amSAT-MSY
6h 00m1 stop
$209Southwest
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Fri, Dec 12 - Sat, Jan 3
Delta Logo
5:37 pm - 12:34 amMSY-SAT
6h 57m1 stop
Delta Logo
6:10 pm - 11:38 pmSAT-MSY
5h 28m1 stop
$250Delta
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AI-generated summary based on content written by travel experts
Southwest's free carry-on policy saves on fees.
Spirit's Wi-Fi offers gate-to-gate connectivity.
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Cheapest • from $160 (round-trip)
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Best reviews • 8.0 score
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Cheapest round-trip
$160
Overall average: $355
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MSY - SAT • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$247
Typical prices: $309-$510
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KAYAK's insights & trends for New Orleans to San Antonio flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from New Orleans to San Antonio to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from New Orleans to San Antonio?

The average price of all round-trip flights from New Orleans to San Antonio clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to San Antonio on a Wednesday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to New Orleans, you should consider flying back on a Thursday, and avoid Saturdays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from New Orleans to San Antonio?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from New Orleans to San Antonio, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from New Orleans to San Antonio is August, where tickets cost $215 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are October and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $398 and $357 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from New Orleans to San Antonio?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $212, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from New Orleans to San Antonio?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from New Orleans to San Antonio, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from New Orleans to San Antonio, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 51% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 20 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from New Orleans to San Antonio

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarization of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
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Southwest

Southwest offers free carry-on and personal item, but checked bags now incur fees.


Southwest's Rapid Rewards program offers unlimited rewards seats and no blackout dates.

Read more about Southwestby Blane Bachelor
Spirit Airlines

Spirit's Big Front Seat offers 20-inch width and 11” extra legroom for a nominal fee.


Spirit's Wi-Fi offers gate-to-gate connectivity, with options for browsing and streaming.

Airports
MSY

For a smooth departure from MSY, consider booking parking in advance online to secure a spot and streamline your travel experience.

Read more about MSYby Daniel Scheffler
SAT

Take the #5 VIA bus from SAT to downtown San Antonio for a budget-friendly and convenient 30-minute ride.

Read more about SATby Brandon Schultz
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Blane Bachelor is a journalist and editor specializing in travel and aviation who writes regularly for top global outlets. Born and raised in Florida, Blane has worked and lived in four countries, including the Netherlands, where she’s currently based with her family. Her favorite way to get to know a new destination is by running or riding a bike around town – or hearing a spooky ghost story about local history. She will always choose the window seat.

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Joe Cortez is a seasoned managing editor in aviation with over a decade of industry experience. His work has been featured on prominent platforms such as FlyerTalk and TripSavvy, establishing him as a respected voice in aviation journalism.

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Daniel Scheffler

Daniel Scheffler

Daniel Scheffler is a travel writer, podcaster, and producer. Born in Africa, bred in Europe and now living in America he has traveled to 140 countries (and all 50 U.S. states). Plus he has stayed at over 2500 hotels across the globe. His original shows Everywhere and Without Maps (available on Spotify) showcase his beliefs, travel is about humanity and sharing that beauty. And thus it reminds you that you shouldn’t believe everything you think.

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Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz

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Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz is an award-winning food and travel writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in Forbes, AAA, Thrillist, Travel + Leisure, and The Daily Meal, among many others, and he is the author of 6 books, including 3 cookbooks.

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Low seasonJune
Cheapest flight$54
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 18% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 13% increase in price.
Flight from New Orleans to San Antonio

When to book flights from New Orleans to San Antonio

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from New Orleans to San Antonio based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from New Orleans to San Antonio

  • What is the cheapest flight from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from New Orleans to San Antonio was $54 for a one-way ticket and $160 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between New Orleans and San Antonio?

    No

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    New Orleans airport is called New Orleans Louis Armstrong and the only airport in San Antonio is San Antonio.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    American Airlines, and Delta offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the New Orleans to San Antonio flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the New Orleans to San Antonio flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between New Orleans and San Antonio, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    There are nonstop flights from New Orleans to San Antonio on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from New Orleans to San Antonio, Southwest or United Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from New Orleans to San Antonio are Southwest and United Airlines. With an average price for the route of $329 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. United Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $365 and an overall rating of 7.4.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from New Orleans to San Antonio.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Antonio from New Orleans is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San Antonio with an airline and back to New Orleans with another airline. Booking your flights between New Orleans and SAT can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from New Orleans to San Antonio?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San Antonio from New Orleans up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from New Orleans to San Antonio

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $106 or less one-way and $367 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from New Orleans to San Antonio?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from New Orleans Louis Armstrong to San Antonio.
Find which airlines fly direct from New Orleans Louis Armstrong Airport to San Antonio Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

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Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from New Orleans to San Antonio

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from New Orleans to San Antonio. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4239 reviews
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
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I was re-booked onto another flight because my original flight was delayed and I would have missed my connector. I ended up in the “C” group after paying extra to be in the “A “ group on the original flight. At least if you’re going to re-book people, re-book them into the same group.

2.0 MediocrePrincess, Oct 2025MSY - DAL
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I was re-booked onto another flight because my original flight was delayed and I would have missed my connector. I ended up in the “C” group after paying extra to be in the “A “ group on the original flight. At least if you’re going to re-book people, re-book them into the same group.

Excellent. Would encourage Southwest to keep current boarding procedures with free style seating. Makes for a fantastic experience

Was good. I miss the free 2 checked bags. That was part of what made Southwest special

After being assaulted by a flight attendant I was then brushed off as oh well because he long braids didn’t mean to whip me in the eye. I have filed complaints and will see. But like any other issue I’ve had with kayak involved it’s been trash. Last time I’ll be using your app

After a 3 hour layover in Denver my flight was delayed over 5 hours! No explanation; no assistance; no offer to provide compensation; no one at Southwest was willing to offer any assistance. 8 hours in the Denver airport - ridiculous!

Boarding was a little late, but made up for it. It was quick to taxi to the runway, since it's a smallish airport.

Multiple delays and gate changes. Arrived at final destination 6 hours late. All rental cars had been taken.

The movies using Southwest WiFi kept pausing and I had to restart multiple times.

First, my flight was a usual flight nothing exceptional or unexpected. Over all it was a normal, good flight! Second, your questionaire is wholly lacking in the proper options to which one can answer a question. Often on short flights, there is no food let alone entertainment so why isn't that reflected in your questionaire? A simple "not applicable" would cover that issue appropriately but no, your form arbitrarily enters an answer based on the initial assessment which normally isn't factual. Until you provide an accurate means of assessing flights, I'll no longer be completing of these unimpressive and misleading assessements. Thank you!

Easy to book and to get check in and get on and off.

Crew and customer service were excellent. This flight also had plenty of leg room and seat mounted screens for entertainment. A very pleasant flight all around!

I was in first class. The outlets at my seat did not work. The plane was shabby and run down. I had prepurchsed a day subscription for internet that was not redeemable. I had to repurchase the internet for my flight and then it didn’t work anyway. Quite disappointed in what was supposed to be the launch of a great vacation.

Flight was good and crew was super polite. However, there were around 5 kids screaming the WHOLE 2 hours. I understand kids have to come but parents need to do something to control their children. They make the experience terrible, especially after finishing 16 hour shifts at the hospital I needed some sleep, which I did not get.

Armrest controller on my seat 35D and nextbooennseat 35E did not work right. Hard to press buttons to recognize and 35D had constantnpressure either upmost down somit was nearly impossible to make selections. .

I flew with my dog and had already purchased my dog’s ticket. Even that morning I had called costumer service to insure that my husband and I had seats together since the website was giving me an error when choosing our seats and the representative mentioned our dog. I showed up early to the airport and when I got to the gate and we started boarding I was help back and told that I was supposed to have a yellow tag and that I should have checked in at the counter for them to give me that tag. I was not aware of this, the representative on the phone did not say anything. Nor did I see it anywhere in the checking process online, so if you travel with a pet and are not checking in luggage, just know that you still have to go to the check in counter when arriving at the airport unless you want to be the last one to board and not have room for your carry on in the overhead bins. Other than that, I had a great experience.

This flight was perfect. No complaints and only the highest regard for the crew and ground staff and how they executed perfectly. I fly a lot with United and would request predictability and transparency in their operations instead of last minute changes.

This is for UA2274 from Houston to Sacramento. The flight was delayed arriving due to mechanical issues so we left about 3 hours later than scheduled. When boarding the plane the temperature inside was excessive - likely close to 100. Pilot apologized and said it was going to improve at altitude, which it did. But before that I honestly thought there might have been more delays removing passengers made ill from the heat. We were delayed leaving due to another mechanical issue. There was not water on the plane due to a panel that was not secured. They did that quickly, but the combination of mechanical issues was rather disturbing and did not reflect well on United.

United sent me a mileage plus number last year but that number is invalid so I can’t use it to check into flights or collect mileage. There is human to speak about the problem, only computers who keep asking me if I am using the correct email. It’s so frustrating and I cannot resolve it.

The woman gate agent in Phoenix was none too sympathetic about my check-in process as I am relatively new with using apps. I almost did not get on because she said I did not check-in. I thought I had via Kayak where I purchased a very expensive ticket. Lesson learned but to be told I may not get on as a matter of factly was difficult to hear.

Gate agent did not hold flight for connection, provided no assistance to get new flight

A couple ladies from the crew were so rude and nasty. Thought they were mad at having to be there especially if you asked a question. This will make me think twice next time if I book a flight with you.

Always seated jammed in rear of aircraft Admirals Club food at DFW terminal D was absolute worst food experience and I pay $600/year to eat this dried out junk

Flight attendants on this flight were very attentive and friendly

You can plug your phone in & use their wifi to watch movies, etc, but the plane’s wifi was disconnected for most of the flight.

Very below average , plane from Dallas to Toyko was very poor designed plane. I had to sit for 13 hours next to fat man. Really bad seat and entertainment screen sucked

Full flight so overhead bin space ran out & bags had to be checked. When you’re in the last boarding group, you might as well expect that. Don’t pay to check bags though because when they run out of space for carry-ons, they check your bag to your destination for free. When traveling with children, no need to pay extra for seats, they will assign seats & have to sit your children with you.

American almost always Delays flights from Austin to Dallas and back. I cannot believe they have such poor service on this route. I was about to switch to American from Delta, but they gave me enough reasons not to.

There's nothing I liked about it. For first off I scheduled this trip two weeks in advance then they delayed my flight which messed up my whole trip. So I scheduled it for the following weekend thinking there won't be a delay and guess what as soon as I got to the airport we said in the airplane on the tarmac for an hour and a half. Not only was it delayed I missed my connecting flight meaning I had to stay the night at Dallas-Fort Worth airport sleeping on the floor. I will tell you this I will never fly American airlines ever again I have had nothing but horrible experience with them and I just throw money at them

Having to reschedule flights a day later, they loaded by luggage on the wrong plane from Little rock now I have to HOPE they deliver it to where im staying like they said would. International flight crew was very disgruntled and not very friendly.

The entertainment package was vast and the selections were very current. Keep updating it was great.

My luggage didn’t arrive at LAX, so that wasn’t a good experience.

Flight was good and on time. Everyone was nice. Seats aren't very comfortable

The seats are too small the plane makes weird noise when landing 🛬

For the minimalist experience, it is really a great ride-- feels a little like public transport i guess

I didn't order food. I requested a Tomato juice and was given a boody mary mix. The serve needs to warn the customer what their given. It wasn't a huge deal, but I wasted $4.50.

EVERYTHING! It was so bad that I will be filing a claim for reimbursement for my seat as I could not fully sit in it due to an obese person being next to me and spilling over into my "space." And my personal item in the overhead been got crushed between two suitcases, so now my business laptop has been damaged beyond repair. Also, it was expensive! Since you pay for EVERYTHING, the cost of the trip was probably more than if you I used an airline that was not discounted. I will NEVER fly Spirit Airlines again!

One of worst experienc my family have every had with this airline. I was informed my Kayak that my flight was delayed and that my family will not make it to houston for our connecting flight. I contacted Spirit customer service to get my family on a later flight due to the delay in Vagas and them not making their connecting flight. The customer rep keep telling me that the flight from vagas is on time and not delayed. She even make to go to the spirit app on my phone and show me how to look up weather or not the flight was delayed. The app showed "on time" 20 minutes later when my family arrived at the airport for their flight, they were told that the flight was delayed and she will not make her connecting flight. I call spirit airline customer support again that night and spoke to another rep who apologize for his collegue and he told me that my family will receive a credit for this, this was on Saturday I still have not received the credit or an email letting me know when I will be credited for this inconvenience. This is not good business and it need to be fixed.

It was very bad it got delayed by 2 hours.Never going to travel with spirit airlines in future.

Flight delayed over 3 or 4 hours because no captain to fly plane. I couldn’t make a connection and had to wait 9 hours for another flight. Had to fly red eye flight. Sucks

I wanted to upgrade my seat because I’m 6’2 and never have enough leg room for my comfort. They upgraded my seat for free putting me in an emergency exit seat. I was very comfortable

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