Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in January 2025

69.5%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 177 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 69.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 68.4% reached their destination on time; 13.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 9.8 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 217 departures with 68.7% leaving on time: a change of +0.8 points, with flights down 18%.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 67.8% of the time (177 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 21% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 68.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 13.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LFT in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	69.5%	68.7%	76.1%	79.3%
Arrived on time	68.4%	68.2%	75.1%	78.6%
Cancelled	13.0%	7.4%	3.2%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.3 min	30.2 min	24.4 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	7	7	17,992
Scheduled departures	177	217	2,522	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	76	43%	64.5%	20.2 min	11.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	53	30%	62.3%	19.4 min	15.1%
MQ Envoy Air	48	27%	81.3%	-5.6 min	12.5%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	144	68.1%	11.1 min	13.2%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	31	67.7%	23.4 min	12.9%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	2	100.0%	-11.5 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	50.4%	36.2%	1,735
Late-arriving aircraft	21.4%	34.7%	738
National Aviation System	19.2%	19.9%	660
Extreme weather	9.1%	9.1%	312
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,445 delay minutes on 33 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 January 2025?

69.5% of 177 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 68.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 68.7% of 217 departures left on time and 7.4% were cancelled, against 69.5% and 13.0% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.