Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in March 2024

83.2%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 333 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 83.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.8% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 4.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 80.5% of the time (333 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, extreme weather 28% and late-arriving aircraft 21%.

On time 80.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.5%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.6%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	83.2%	—	76.1%	78.5%
Arrived on time	80.8%	—	75.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	2.1%	—	3.2%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.1 min	—	24.4 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	7	19,726
Scheduled departures	333	—	2,522	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	123	37%	80.5%	4.1 min	2.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	122	37%	78.7%	4.5 min	3.3%
9E Endeavor Air	88	26%	84.1%	6.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	124	77.4%	2.9 min	4.8%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	90	81.1%	3.5 min	1.1%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	88	84.1%	6.9 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	31	83.9%	12.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	41.9%	32.1%	1,977
Late-arriving aircraft	21.2%	42.1%	1,000
National Aviation System	8.9%	21.4%	421
Extreme weather	27.8%	4.2%	1,310
Security	0.2%	0.2%	11

4,719 delay minutes on 55 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 March 2024?

83.2% of 333 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.