Route reliability record
BTR→CLT
Baton Rouge to Charlotte
- Flights
- 744
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 675 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 744 BTR to CLT flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly BTR to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 89.9%, against 80.2% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 728 completed flights
Avg delay
116 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
80.2% on time across 707 flights
These figures cover 744 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on BTR to CLT
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 27 | 88.9% | 35 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 707 | 80.2% | 117 min | 2.26% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 10 | 60.0% | 129 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on BTR to CLT
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am301 flights89.7%
- 8am–11am26 flights—
- 11am–2pm110 flights80.0%
- 2pm–5pm127 flights67.7%
- 5pm–8pm180 flights70.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.7% of the time, against 67.7% for the afternoon window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 301 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter BTR to CLT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On BTR to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 89.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 67.7%, a wide gap of 22.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am89.7%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm80.0%
- 2–5pm67.7%
- 5–8pm70.5%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 30 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 64.8% on time, 30 points below November, the best at 95.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. December was the busiest month here, with 84 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.3%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 16,663 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,041 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 675 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.4% on time across 742 flights, 6 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 744 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 744 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 80.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 728 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BTR to CLT questions
How often is BTR to CLT delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 19.8% of the 744 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is BTR to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
80.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 3 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BTR to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 89.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 67.7%, 22 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on BTR to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 64.8% on time, compared with 95.2% in November. Across the year that is 30 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to BTR — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- BTR to DFW, a related route80.9%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- BTR to ATL, a related route85.7%
- Envoy Air on-time record88.9%
- PSA Airlines on-time record80.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record60.0%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. BTR to CLT and CLT to BTR are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.