Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in September 2023

88.6%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 402 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 88.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.3% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 8.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 83.1% of the time (402 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 86.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.2%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.5%

Every scheduled departure from BTR in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	88.6%	—	79.0%	80.5%
Arrived on time	86.3%	—	78.5%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.8%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.5 min	—	21.6 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	13	18,978
Scheduled departures	402	—	4,675	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	133	33%	83.5%	7.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	82	20%	89.0%	-5.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	72	18%	90.3%	-1.6 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	58	14%	79.3%	-1.0 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	52	13%	94.2%	-13.9 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	5	1%	60.0%	18.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	167	82.6%	6.0 min	0.0%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	134	91.0%	-8.5 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	60	88.3%	-4.3 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	30	86.7%	-0.7 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	9	88.9%	7.4 min	0.0%
BTR–MCO	Baton Rouge to Orlando	1	0.0%	80.0 min	0.0%
BTR–XNA	Baton Rouge to Fayetteville	1	0.0%	26.0 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	36.4%	1,045
Late-arriving aircraft	45.0%	38.3%	1,652
National Aviation System	15.0%	19.9%	552
Extreme weather	11.6%	5.1%	425
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,674 delay minutes on 53 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BTR on time in September 2023?

88.6% of 402 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BTR · methodology · corrections.