Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in April 2024

84.6%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 266 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 84.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.5% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 4.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 81.2% of the time (266 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, extreme weather 28% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 80.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 1.5%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	84.6%	—	76.1%	80.5%
Arrived on time	80.5%	—	75.1%	80.2%
Cancelled	1.5%	—	3.2%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.2 min	—	24.4 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	7	19,406
Scheduled departures	266	—	2,522	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	94	35%	72.3%	27.0 min	3.2%
9E Endeavor Air	86	32%	91.9%	-3.4 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	53	20%	69.8%	20.7 min	1.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	33	12%	90.9%	-3.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	120	70.0%	21.8 min	3.3%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	86	91.9%	-3.4 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	30	76.7%	36.5 min	0.0%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	30	93.3%	-6.8 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	16.4%	33.6%	829
Late-arriving aircraft	37.2%	41.0%	1,882
National Aviation System	17.5%	20.0%	882
Extreme weather	28.1%	5.1%	1,421
Security	0.8%	0.2%	39

5,053 delay minutes on 47 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 April 2024?

84.6% of 266 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.