Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field in October 2025

87.6%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 420 domestic departures from Baton Rouge Metropolitan/Ryan Field (BTR). 87.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.0% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so BTR departures were 7.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 428 departures with 89.3% leaving on time: a change of −1.7 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at BTR that month were on time 84.6% of the time (422 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 28% and extreme weather 19%.

On time 84.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.2%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	BTR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	87.6%	89.3%	79.0%	80.0%
Arrived on time	84.0%	89.3%	78.5%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.7%	0.0%	2.8%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.8 min	9.7 min	21.6 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	14	14	13	20,195
Scheduled departures	420	428	4,675	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	238	57%	85.3%	13.4 min	1.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	67	16%	82.1%	9.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	60	14%	85.0%	0.7 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	55	13%	80.0%	1.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BTR–DFW	Baton Rouge to Dallas/Fort Worth	208	84.1%	15.8 min	1.4%
BTR–ATL	Baton Rouge to Atlanta	68	82.4%	8.9 min	0.0%
BTR–CLT	Baton Rouge to Charlotte	62	88.7%	1.3 min	0.0%
BTR–IAH	Baton Rouge to Houston	54	79.6%	1.8 min	0.0%
BTR–DCA	Baton Rouge to Washington	27	85.2%	-4.6 min	0.0%
BTR–BNA	Baton Rouge to Nashville	1	100.0%	-8.0 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	41.6%	34.0%	2,852
Late-arriving aircraft	27.9%	39.7%	1,908
National Aviation System	11.9%	22.9%	814
Extreme weather	18.6%	3.3%	1,274
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

6,848 delay minutes on 64 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 October 2025?

87.6% of 420 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 89.3% of 428 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 87.6% and 0.7% in October 2025.

Provenance

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