Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in December 2023

85.8%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 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 232 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 85.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.6% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 86.2% of the time (232 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and extreme weather 9%.

On time 86.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.4%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	85.8%	—	76.1%	83.1%
Arrived on time	86.6%	—	75.1%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.2%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.9 min	—	24.4 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	7	19,013
Scheduled departures	232	—	2,522	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	71	31%	84.5%	10.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	57	25%	96.5%	-5.6 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	54	23%	85.2%	10.0 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	50	22%	80.0%	7.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	115	88.7%	5.5 min	0.0%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	73	84.9%	9.9 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	30	76.7%	7.9 min	0.0%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	14	100.0%	-16.8 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	50.3%	37.1%	1,769
Late-arriving aircraft	35.4%	38.8%	1,245
National Aviation System	4.6%	17.6%	161
Extreme weather	8.9%	6.2%	313
Security	0.8%	0.3%	27

3,515 delay minutes on 31 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 December 2023?

85.8% of 232 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.