Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in May 2024

74.8%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 441 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 74.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 71.4% reached their destination on time; 2.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 1.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 67.8% of the time (441 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 33%, air carrier 29% and extreme weather 22%.

On time 71.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.4%
Cancelled 2.7%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	74.8%	—	79.0%	73.4%
Arrived on time	71.4%	—	78.5%	72.3%
Cancelled	2.7%	—	2.8%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.6 min	—	21.6 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	15	—	13	20,325
Scheduled departures	441	—	4,675	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	186	42%	74.2%	14.8 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	110	25%	80.0%	14.8 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	86	20%	53.5%	39.7 min	5.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	35	8%	62.9%	12.0 min	11.4%
9E Endeavor Air	24	5%	87.5%	7.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	187	62.6%	27.7 min	6.4%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	134	81.3%	13.5 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	93	71.0%	15.2 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	27	85.2%	1.7 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.8%	29.8%	2,837
Late-arriving aircraft	32.9%	43.0%	3,236
National Aviation System	16.6%	20.1%	1,638
Extreme weather	21.7%	7.0%	2,134
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

9,845 delay minutes on 112 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 May 2024?

74.8% of 441 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 71.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.