LFT to ATL flight delays
Lafayette, LA (LFT) Atlanta, GA (ATL) · 503 miles
203 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · the publishing regulator
80.42%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
5.42%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
131 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
27 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 5.42% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 131 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
Only SkyWest Airlines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
This is a thin route — 203 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, SkyWest Airlines arrived on time most often on LFT to ATL. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in July.
Every airline on LFT to ATL
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 203 | 80.42% | 5.42% | 131 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
ATL to LFT Atlanta back to Lafayette 79.38% on time DOther routes from Lafayette
Common questions
Are flights from Lafayette to Atlanta usually delayed?
80.42% of flights on the LFT to ATL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Lafayette to Atlanta?
Only SkyWest Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 203 flights and 80.42% arriving on time.
How often are LFT to ATL flights cancelled?
5.42% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 54 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When LFT to ATL flights are late, how late are they?
About 131 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LFT to ATL during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →