Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in January 2024

70.4%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 385 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 70.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 68.8% reached their destination on time; 4.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 3.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 68.0% of the time (387 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 36%, air carrier 34% and extreme weather 16%.

On time 68.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 26.2%
Cancelled 4.2%
Diverted 0.8%

Every scheduled departure from BTR in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.4%	—	79.0%	74.0%
Arrived on time	68.8%	—	78.5%	72.9%
Cancelled	4.2%	—	2.8%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	25.7 min	—	21.6 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	13	18,242
Scheduled departures	385	—	4,675	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	159	41%	71.1%	15.7 min	3.8%
9E Endeavor Air	82	21%	73.2%	10.1 min	4.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	78	20%	62.8%	28.7 min	6.4%
MQ Envoy Air	54	14%	59.3%	32.7 min	1.9%
DL Delta Air Lines	10	3%	100.0%	-5.8 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	2	1%	50.0%	23.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	141	61.0%	35.3 min	4.3%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	105	76.2%	7.5 min	3.8%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	62	72.6%	6.6 min	3.2%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	53	64.2%	23.1 min	5.7%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	24	83.3%	-3.9 min	4.2%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	34.2%	32.6%	3,229
Late-arriving aircraft	35.6%	39.0%	3,359
National Aviation System	14.2%	17.9%	1,341
Extreme weather	15.8%	10.3%	1,489
Security	0.2%	0.2%	21

9,439 delay minutes on 101 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 January 2024?

70.4% of 385 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 68.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.