Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in August 2023

85.3%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 259 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 85.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.3% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 8.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 85.3% of the time (259 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 68%, extreme weather 15% and late-arriving aircraft 13%.

On time 87.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.6%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from LFT in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	85.3%	—	76.1%	76.7%
Arrived on time	87.3%	—	75.1%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	3.2%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.9 min	—	24.4 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	7	20,100
Scheduled departures	259	—	2,522	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	89	34%	97.8%	-14.9 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	73	28%	80.8%	9.7 min	1.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	69	27%	82.6%	9.4 min	1.4%
OH PSA Airlines	28	11%	82.1%	4.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	136	94.1%	-7.1 min	0.7%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	89	78.7%	11.3 min	1.1%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	28	82.1%	4.3 min	0.0%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	6	83.3%	-1.5 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	68.1%	36.7%	2,510
Late-arriving aircraft	12.8%	42.2%	471
National Aviation System	3.9%	15.7%	144
Extreme weather	15.1%	5.1%	557
Security	0.1%	0.2%	4

3,686 delay minutes on 30 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 LFT on time in August 2023?

85.3% of 259 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for LFT · methodology · corrections.