Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in September 2023

86.6%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 269 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 86.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.8% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 6.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 80.7% of the time (270 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 46%, late-arriving aircraft 38% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 84.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.9%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	86.6%	—	76.1%	80.5%
Arrived on time	84.8%	—	75.1%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.2%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.0 min	—	24.4 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	7	18,978
Scheduled departures	269	—	2,522	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	134	50%	82.1%	1.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	68	25%	92.6%	4.9 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	52	19%	80.8%	3.2 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	15	6%	86.7%	-9.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	113	83.2%	-5.0 min	0.0%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	84	89.3%	8.5 min	0.0%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	43	83.7%	8.1 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	29	79.3%	2.9 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	46.3%	36.4%	1,776
Late-arriving aircraft	37.5%	38.3%	1,438
National Aviation System	14.0%	19.9%	538
Extreme weather	2.3%	5.1%	87
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,839 delay minutes on 40 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 September 2023?

86.6% of 269 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.