OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Lafayette to Atlanta

503 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LFT–ATL arrive on time 67% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate67%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay105 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled6.3%of scheduled flights

based on 158 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time67%
    Medianon time
    p90105 min
    Cancel6.3%
    Flights158

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline70%
  • Weather20%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft0%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline10%
  • Weather90%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 10 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly LFT → ATL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 77% to 86% on time.

  • Mornings86% on time · p90 20 min · 634 flights
  • Middays85% on time · p90 30 min · 575 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 80 min · 462 flights
  • Afternoons77% on time · p90 65 min · 293 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 86% on time.

  • Mondays86% on time · p90 20 min · 294 flights
  • Wednesdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 292 flights
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 218 flights
  • Fridays82% on time · p90 50 min · 294 flights
  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 45 min · 287 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 75 min · 293 flights
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 45 min · 286 flights

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.