Route reliability record
BTR→DFW
Baton Rouge to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,076
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 383 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,076 BTR to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 846 at 83.8% on time.
Best time to fly BTR to DFW: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.0% of the time and Tuesday flights 85.3%, against 80.9% 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
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,996 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.32%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.8% on time across 846 flights
These figures cover 2,076 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% 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 DFW
The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 846 | 83.8% | 93 min | 1.18% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 1,171 | 79.0% | 127 min | 4.53% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 59 | 77.4% | 90 min | 10.17% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Baton Rouge to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 2 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BTR → DFWBaton Rouge to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 82.8% | 83.8% | 1.18% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 2. LFT → DFWLafayette to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 81.0% | 83.0% | 2.39% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 3. BTR → DFWBaton Rouge to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 75.4% | 79.0% | 4.53% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
| 4. LFT → DFWLafayette to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 68.0% | 71.0% | 4.27% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
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 17 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am444 flights86.7%
- 8am–11am330 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm195 flights86.2%
- 2pm–5pm536 flights79.9%
- 5pm–8pm471 flights69.6%
- 8pm–5am100 flights82.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.0% of the time, against 69.6% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 536 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter BTR to DFW 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 DFW, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 87.0% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 69.6%, a wide gap of 17.4 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am86.7%
- 8–11am87.0%
- 11am–2pm86.2%
- 2–5pm79.9%
- 5–8pm69.6%
- 8pm–5am82.3%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 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.
December is the weak month at 71.7% on time, against 87.9% in August. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 208 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.3%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 43,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 43,286 reported delay minutes.
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 43,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.32%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.6% 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.
At 383 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 79.7% on time across 2,077 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 2,076 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.32% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,996 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BTR to DFW questions
How often is BTR to DFW 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 19.1% of the 2,076 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on BTR to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 83.8% on time across 846 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 79.0%, a gap of 5 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BTR to DFW?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 87.0% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 69.6%, 17 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 December delays on BTR to DFW?
December is the weakest month at 71.7% on time, compared with 87.9% in August. Across the year that is 16 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
- DFW to BTR — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on BTR to DFW83.8%
- PSA Airlines on BTR to DFW79.0%
- BTR to ATL, a related route85.7%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- BTR to CLT, a related route80.2%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.8%
- PSA Airlines on-time record79.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record77.4%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. BTR to DFW and DFW 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.