Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field in October 2025

84.0%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 238 domestic departures from Lafayette Regional Paul Fournet Field (LFT). 84.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.5% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so LFT departures were 4.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 283 departures with 86.9% leaving on time: a change of −2.9 points, with flights down 16%.

Flights arriving at LFT that month were on time 76.5% of the time (238 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 81.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.0%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	LFT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	84.0%	86.9%	76.1%	80.0%
Arrived on time	81.5%	88.3%	75.1%	79.1%
Cancelled	2.1%	0.0%	3.2%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.1 min	12.7 min	24.4 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	9	7	20,195
Scheduled departures	238	283	2,522	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	96	40%	84.4%	9.4 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	89	37%	75.3%	1.5 min	5.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	53	22%	86.8%	-3.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LFT–DFW	Lafayette to Dallas/Fort Worth	154	77.9%	10.0 min	3.2%
LFT–CLT	Lafayette to Charlotte	31	90.3%	-14.9 min	0.0%
LFT–IAH	Lafayette to Houston	27	88.9%	-4.0 min	0.0%
LFT–ATL	Lafayette to Atlanta	26	84.6%	-2.6 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	28.6%	34.0%	699
Late-arriving aircraft	43.2%	39.7%	1,057
National Aviation System	22.1%	22.9%	541
Extreme weather	6.0%	3.3%	147
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

2,444 delay minutes on 38 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 October 2025?

84.0% of 238 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 86.9% of 283 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 84.0% and 2.1% in October 2025.

Provenance

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