Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in March 2025

74.3%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 338 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 74.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.3% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 5.6 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 373 departures with 82.3% leaving on time: a change of −8.0 points, with flights down 9%.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 71.1% of the time (339 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 35%, air carrier 31% and late-arriving aircraft 26%.

On time 76.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.3%
Cancelled 1.8%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from BTR in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	74.3%	82.3%	79.0%	79.9%
Arrived on time	76.3%	82.8%	78.5%	79.3%
Cancelled	1.8%	0.8%	2.8%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.2 min	13.3 min	21.6 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	12	13	20,029
Scheduled departures	338	373	4,675	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	114	34%	72.8%	28.6 min	2.6%
MQ Envoy Air	91	27%	78.0%	4.3 min	2.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	80	24%	82.5%	7.1 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	53	16%	71.7%	6.8 min	1.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	146	70.5%	12.4 min	3.4%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	80	82.5%	7.1 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	59	71.2%	18.5 min	1.7%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	27	88.9%	-6.0 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	26	88.5%	47.0 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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	31.3%	33.0%	2,095
Late-arriving aircraft	25.6%	39.2%	1,715
National Aviation System	8.0%	21.9%	536
Extreme weather	35.0%	5.9%	2,344
Security	0.0%	0.1%	1

6,691 delay minutes on 72 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 March 2025?

74.3% of 338 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 82.3% of 373 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 74.3% and 1.8% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.