Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in November 2023

87.5%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 393 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 87.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.0% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 84.7% of the time (392 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 48%, late-arriving aircraft 40% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 87.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.5%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	87.5%	—	79.0%	86.0%
Arrived on time	87.0%	—	78.5%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.8%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.4 min	—	21.6 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	13	18,793
Scheduled departures	393	—	4,675	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	164	42%	86.0%	5.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	109	28%	94.5%	-7.3 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	62	16%	85.5%	-1.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	53	13%	75.5%	10.0 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	5	1%	100.0%	-17.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	147	85.7%	5.6 min	0.0%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	114	94.7%	-7.8 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	59	86.4%	-1.1 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	43	69.8%	14.2 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	29	89.7%	-2.6 min	0.0%
BTR–BHM	Baton Rouge to Birmingham	1	100.0%	7.0 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	48.3%	42.5%	1,535
Late-arriving aircraft	39.5%	37.3%	1,255
National Aviation System	11.8%	16.2%	375
Extreme weather	0.4%	3.7%	14
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

3,179 delay minutes on 49 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 November 2023?

87.5% of 393 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.