There are 10 ways to get from Lima to New Orleans by bus, plane, bus (Greyhound), train, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Bus to Fort Wayne International Airport, fly
best- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Fort Wayne, INbus
- Fly from Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane FWA - MSY
8h 43m$142–621Bus, train to Chicago Midway International Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Gary, INbus
- Take the train from Gary to Museum Campus/11th Street Sationtrain
- Fly from Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane MDW - MSY
11h 7m$141–675Bus (Greyhound)
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Atlanta Bus Stationbus Greyhound US0110
- Take the bus from Atlanta Bus Station to New Orleans Bus Stationbus Greyhound US0602
23h 40m$159–308Bus, train
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Chicagobus Columbus
- Take the train from Chicago Union Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminaltrain City of New Orleans
26h 26m$304–663Drive 924.5 mi
- Drive from Lima to New Orleanscar 924.5 mi
15h 16m$169–244Bus to John Glenn Columbus International Airport, fly
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to N Wilson Rd & Ferrell Pl - Columbusbus
- Fly from John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane CMH - MSY
8h 44m$296–954Bus to Dayton, fly
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Dayton Trotwood Bus Stationbus
- Fly from Dayton (DAY) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane DAY - MSY
10h 27m$156–777Bus to Detroit, fly
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Detroit Bus Stationbus
- Fly from Detroit (DTW) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane DTW - MSY
8h 59m$465–1,145Bus, bus to Covington, fly
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Dayton Trotwood Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Dayton Trotwood Bus Station to Cincinnatibus
- Fly from Covington (CVG) to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)plane CVG - MSY
8h 56m$192–692Bus, train via Toledo
- Take the bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Toledo Bus Stopbus
- Take the train from Toledo to Chicago Union Stationtrain
- Take the train from Chicago Union Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminaltrain
27h 30m$361–772
Lima to New Orleans by bus (Greyhound)
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lima to New Orleans is to bus which costs $150 - $310 and takes 23h 40m.
The fastest way to get from Lima to New Orleans is to bus and fly which takes 8h 43m and costs $140 - $650.
No, there is no direct bus from Lima station to New Orleans station. However, there are services departing from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima and arriving at New Orleans Bus Station via Atlanta Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 23h 40m.
The distance between Lima and New Orleans is 903 miles. The road distance is 929.9 miles.
The best way to get from Lima to New Orleans without a car is to bus which takes 23h 40m and costs $150 - $310.
It takes approximately 8h 43m to get from Lima to New Orleans, including transfers.
Lima to New Orleans bus services, operated by Greyhound USA, depart from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima.
Lima to New Orleans bus services, operated by Greyhound USA, arrive at Atlanta Bus Station.
New Orleans is 1h behind Lima. It is currently 2:51 AM in Lima and 1:51 AM in New Orleans.
Yes, the driving distance between Lima to New Orleans is 930 miles. It takes approximately 15h 16m to drive from Lima to New Orleans.
What companies run services between Lima, Allen County, OH, USA and New Orleans, LA, USA?
You can take a bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to New Orleans Bus Station via Atlanta Bus Station in around 23h 40m.
- Website
- southwest.com
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Nashville
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Saturday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via St. Louis
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $150–750
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago Midway International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–800
Flights from Detroit to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Nashville
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Flights from Detroit to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via St. Louis
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–750
Flights from Covington to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Nashville
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Saturday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–650
Flights from Covington to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago Midway International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 38m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–800
Flights from Chicago Midway International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Flights from Chicago Midway International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Nashville
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 31m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–650
Flights from Chicago Midway International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via St. Louis
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
Flights from Chicago Midway International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Kansas City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $140–700
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–600
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–650
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–550
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 26m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $150–750
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 18m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–800
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190–900
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Reagan Washington
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 36m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–900
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Philadelphia
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $220–1,000
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–800
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–550
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Minneapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 19m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–700
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Flights from John Glenn Columbus International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 34m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–800
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–750
Flights from Detroit to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 34m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Flights from Covington to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–700
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Fort Wayne International Airport to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–550
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–800
Flights from Dayton to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190–900
- Website
- allegiantair.com
Flights from Covington to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $120–650
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Chicago Union Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $280–600
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Toledo to Chicago Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 23m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $70–150
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Chicago Union Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $280–600
- Website
- Amtrak
- Phone
- +1 219-926-5744
- Website
- mysouthshoreline.com
Train from Gary to Museum Campus/11th Street Sation
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–8
- Schedules at
- mysouthshoreline.com
- Adults 14-64
- $7–8
- Phone
- +1 888-378-3823
- [email protected]
- Website
- Barons Bus
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Fort Wayne, IN
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $6–40
- Website
- Barons Bus
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Chicago
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $23–65
- Website
- Barons Bus
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to N Wilson Rd & Ferrell Pl - Columbus
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $8–45
- Website
- Barons Bus
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Gary, IN
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20–60
- Website
- Barons Bus
Rome2Rio's guide to Greyhound USA
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 214-849-8100
- [email protected]
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Atlanta Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $85–170
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Atlanta Bus Station to New Orleans Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $70–140
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Dayton Trotwood Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $10–21
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Detroit Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20–40
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Dayton Trotwood Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $10–21
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Allen County Regional Transit Station - Lima to Toledo Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $11–22
- Website
- Greyhound
- Phone
- +1 (855) 626-8585
- Website
- Flixbus USA
Bus from Dayton Trotwood Bus Station to Cincinnati
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $8–14
- Schedules at
- Flixbus USA
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