Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in September 2025

84.1%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 September 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 239 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 84.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.3% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 82.8% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 1.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in September 2024, the airport had 240 departures with 80.4% leaving on time: a change of +3.7 points, with flights down 0%.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 84.9% of the time (239 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, extreme weather 22% and air carrier 19%.

On time 83.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.5%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2025	Sep 2024	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2025
Departed on time	84.1%	80.4%	76.1%	83.1%
Arrived on time	83.3%	80.8%	75.1%	82.8%
Cancelled	0.8%	3.3%	3.2%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.2 min	20.0 min	24.4 min	12.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	8	7	18,748
Scheduled departures	239	240	2,522	562,439

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	111	46%	85.6%	5.7 min	0.9%
OH PSA Airlines	69	29%	69.6%	10.8 min	1.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	59	25%	94.9%	-13.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	150	76.7%	11.6 min	1.3%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	32	93.8%	-14.1 min	0.0%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	30	93.3%	-11.5 min	0.0%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	27	96.3%	-11.9 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	18.5%	34.3%	481
Late-arriving aircraft	48.1%	37.4%	1,250
National Aviation System	11.5%	22.6%	299
Extreme weather	21.7%	5.6%	564
Security	0.2%	0.1%	5

2,599 delay minutes on 37 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 September 2025?

84.1% of 239 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 82.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In September 2024, 80.4% of 240 departures left on time and 3.3% were cancelled, against 84.1% and 0.8% in September 2025.

Provenance

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