Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in December 2024

77.1%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 371 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 77.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.3% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 77.8% of flights departed on time and 78.1% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 0.7 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in December 2023, the airport had 368 departures with 88.6% leaving on time: a change of −11.5 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 81.9% of the time (370 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 25% and extreme weather 16%.

On time 76.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.3%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2024	Dec 2023	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2024
Departed on time	77.1%	88.6%	79.0%	77.8%
Arrived on time	76.3%	85.9%	78.5%	78.1%
Cancelled	1.9%	0.0%	2.8%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.4 min	7.9 min	21.6 min	16.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	12	13	19,686
Scheduled departures	371	368	4,675	590,581

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	130	35%	72.3%	13.1 min	3.1%
OH PSA Airlines	92	25%	73.9%	13.1 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	68	18%	72.1%	33.1 min	1.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	64	17%	90.6%	-5.7 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	17	5%	82.4%	-7.3 min	11.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	145	74.5%	10.1 min	3.4%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	132	81.1%	14.1 min	0.8%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	76	72.4%	13.2 min	1.3%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	16	68.8%	23.1 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	1	100.0%	-14.0 min	0.0%
BTR–OKC	Baton Rouge to Oklahoma City	1	100.0%	3.0 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), December 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.3%	34.3%	1,782
Late-arriving aircraft	46.3%	40.2%	3,255
National Aviation System	12.7%	17.8%	890
Extreme weather	15.7%	7.5%	1,101
Security	0.1%	0.2%	6

7,034 delay minutes on 79 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 2024?

77.1% of 371 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 77.8% and 78.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In December 2023, 88.6% of 368 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 77.1% and 1.9% in December 2024.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for December 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.