Flights Baton Rouge → Charlotte
BTR → CLT
Route overview
The flight route from Baton Rouge to Charlotte operates with a high level of punctuality, achieving on-time arrivals in 77% of its total flights. With an average delay of just 18 minutes and a total of 190 flights recorded, this route serves the busy destination airport in Charlotte, which handles nearly 47.76 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Baton Rouge (BTR) → Charlotte (CLT) route is operated by American Airlines. Across 252 flights monitored in recent months, 76% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 16 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.59%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.2/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Charlotte the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Baton Rouge the average ATFM delay is 3.2 minutes.
Heading to Charlotte: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Baton Rouge (BTR) to Charlotte (CLT) heads north-east for about 1,085 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 47m.
Departures from Baton Rouge on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 51% of BTR-CLT flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Baton Rouge the average ATFM delay is 3.2 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Charlotte it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 252 tracked BTR-CLT flights, 76% left on time with an average delay of 16 min and a 1.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about BTR-CLT
On the Baton Rouge (BTR) -> Charlotte (CLT) route, on-time performance is 76% with an average delay of 16 minutes, based on 252 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Baton Rouge-Charlotte is 1.59% across 252 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: American Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
