Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in October 2023

83.5%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 400 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.3% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so BTR departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 83.0% of the time (401 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 84.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.2%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	83.5%	—	79.0%	83.8%
Arrived on time	84.3%	—	78.5%	84.0%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	2.8%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	—	21.6 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	13	19,966
Scheduled departures	400	—	4,675	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	109	27%	89.9%	-6.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	107	27%	78.5%	6.7 min	1.9%
OH PSA Airlines	100	25%	82.0%	8.9 min	3.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	68	17%	85.3%	-2.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	16	4%	93.8%	-18.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	174	77.6%	5.8 min	2.9%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	125	90.4%	-7.9 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	62	91.9%	2.8 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	31	83.9%	6.3 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	8	75.0%	3.8 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	36.5%	41.3%	1,240
Late-arriving aircraft	42.4%	40.5%	1,441
National Aviation System	12.0%	14.4%	408
Extreme weather	9.0%	3.7%	306
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,395 delay minutes on 57 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 October 2023?

83.5% of 400 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.