Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in December 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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 368 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 88.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.9% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 89.6% of the time (367 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 27% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 85.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.9%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	88.6%	—	79.0%	83.1%
Arrived on time	85.9%	—	78.5%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.8%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.9 min	—	21.6 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	—	13	19,013
Scheduled departures	368	—	4,675	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	118	32%	83.9%	-4.4 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	84	23%	91.7%	-6.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	81	22%	84.0%	2.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	69	19%	84.1%	1.5 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	16	4%	87.5%	8.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	126	86.5%	-3.8 min	0.0%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	113	83.2%	3.4 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	62	90.3%	-4.3 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	48	87.5%	-1.2 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	19	78.9%	-12.5 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	40.8%	37.1%	1,158
Late-arriving aircraft	26.6%	38.8%	756
National Aviation System	20.4%	17.6%	580
Extreme weather	12.2%	6.2%	345
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

2,839 delay minutes on 51 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 December 2023?

88.6% of 368 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.