Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in April 2024

78.5%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 428 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 78.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.9% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 2.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 77.8% of the time (428 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 27% and extreme weather 17%.

On time 76.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.5%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	78.5%	—	79.0%	80.5%
Arrived on time	76.9%	—	78.5%	80.2%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	2.8%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.6 min	—	21.6 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	14	—	13	19,406
Scheduled departures	428	—	4,675	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	192	45%	70.3%	23.3 min	2.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	116	27%	94.0%	-3.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	63	15%	66.7%	20.2 min	1.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	57	13%	75.4%	13.6 min	1.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	203	67.5%	26.7 min	3.4%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	116	94.0%	-3.1 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	83	73.5%	15.1 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	26	84.6%	-4.8 min	0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	42.2%	33.6%	3,941
Late-arriving aircraft	26.7%	41.0%	2,491
National Aviation System	13.9%	20.0%	1,295
Extreme weather	17.1%	5.1%	1,601
Security	0.2%	0.2%	17

9,345 delay minutes on 92 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 April 2024?

78.5% of 428 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.