Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in March 2025

76.8%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 185 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 76.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.1% reached their destination on time; 3.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 3.1 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 333 departures with 83.2% leaving on time: a change of −6.4 points, with flights down 44%.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 71.9% of the time (185 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 40%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and air carrier 14%.

On time 74.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.7%
Cancelled 3.2%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	76.8%	83.2%	76.1%	79.9%
Arrived on time	74.1%	80.8%	75.1%	79.3%
Cancelled	3.2%	2.1%	3.2%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.3 min	15.1 min	24.4 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	11	7	20,029
Scheduled departures	185	333	2,522	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	81	44%	74.1%	20.0 min	2.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	34%	79.0%	9.0 min	3.2%
OH PSA Airlines	42	23%	66.7%	21.5 min	4.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	154	73.4%	20.0 min	2.6%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	31	77.4%	-0.9 min	6.5%

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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	14.0%	33.0%	582
Late-arriving aircraft	34.1%	39.2%	1,414
National Aviation System	12.0%	21.9%	499
Extreme weather	39.8%	5.9%	1,649
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,144 delay minutes on 42 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 2025?

76.8% of 185 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 83.2% of 333 departures left on time and 2.1% were cancelled, against 76.8% and 3.2% in March 2025.

Provenance

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