Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in April 2025

72.8%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 180 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 72.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.3% reached their destination on time; 3.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 7.8 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 266 departures with 84.6% leaving on time: a change of −11.8 points, with flights down 32%.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 70.6% of the time (180 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 45%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and air carrier 19%.

On time 73.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.3%
Cancelled 3.3%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2025	Apr 2024	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time	72.8%	84.6%	76.1%	80.6%
Arrived on time	73.3%	80.5%	75.1%	79.5%
Cancelled	3.3%	1.5%	3.2%	0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	26.2 min	17.2 min	24.4 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	9	7	19,465
Scheduled departures	180	266	2,522	583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	62	34%	72.6%	13.7 min	1.6%
OH PSA Airlines	59	33%	79.7%	10.1 min	3.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	59	33%	67.8%	37.3 min	5.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	150	68.7%	24.8 min	4.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	30	96.7%	-2.6 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	19.1%	32.7%	884
Late-arriving aircraft	25.9%	39.4%	1,195
National Aviation System	10.2%	22.2%	470
Extreme weather	44.8%	5.5%	2,072
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,621 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 April 2025?

72.8% of 180 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 84.6% of 266 departures left on time and 1.5% were cancelled, against 72.8% and 3.3% in April 2025.

Provenance

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