Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in February 2024

84.4%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 212 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 84.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.8% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so LFT departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 84.0% of the time (212 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, extreme weather 28% and late-arriving aircraft 20%.

On time 85.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.2%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LFT in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	84.4%	—	76.1%	84.0%
Arrived on time	85.8%	—	75.1%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.2%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.9 min	—	24.4 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	—	7	17,307
Scheduled departures	212	—	2,522	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	115	54%	85.2%	7.9 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	75	35%	90.7%	-6.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	22	10%	72.7%	1.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	108	81.5%	8.6 min	0.0%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	75	90.7%	-6.3 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	29	89.7%	-0.2 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	38.8%	35.9%	733
Late-arriving aircraft	19.6%	36.9%	370
National Aviation System	13.7%	21.7%	259
Extreme weather	27.9%	5.3%	526
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

1,888 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 February 2024?

84.4% of 212 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 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 February 2024; 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.