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Lake Charles Regional Airport (LCH) delays & on-time performance

Lake Charles, Louisiana · 2 nonstop destinations · 2 airlines · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

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No FAA-reported ground stops or delays at LCH right now. Individual flights can still be delayed by the airline; check with your airline for your flight.

On-time arrivals
82%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.8%
30 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
101 min when late
Departed on time
84%
avg taxi-out 16 min

Figures cover 1,089 departures from LCH; on-time is measured at arrival. Arrivals into LCH were on time 84% of the time.

Key facts

  • Flights departing Lake Charles Regional Airport (LCH) arrived on time 82% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026, better than the 78% national average.
  • 2.8% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • Envoy Air was the most punctual airline here (85% on time); SkyWest Airlines was the least (68%).
  • Departures scheduled around 10am did best (90% on time); around 6pm did worst (78%).
  • The largest source of delay minutes was airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling) (32%).

Most delayed routes from LCH

Lowest on-time arrival rates among regularly flown routes.

All 2 routes from LCH →

Most reliable routes from LCH

Highest on-time arrival rates among regularly flown routes.

Best airline at LCH

Departures from this airport, ranked by on-time arrival.

AirlineOn timeCancelledAvg delayRoutesFlights
Envoy Air85%2.9%16 min1941
SkyWest Airlines68%2.0%32 min2148

Best time to fly out of LCH

On-time arrival rate by scheduled departure hour (local time).

  • 5am79%53 flts
  • 6am86%311 flts
  • 10am90%72 flts
  • 11am88%44 flts
  • 12pm81%208 flts
  • 2pm83%37 flts
  • 6pm78%364 flts

Monthly trend

50%75%100%July 2025: 67.0% on time, 4.3% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 69.4% on time, 1.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 84.9% on time, 1.9% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.2% on time, 0.9% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 77.8% on time, 6.9% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 80.0% on time, 1.1% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 83.9% on time, 7.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 89.9% on time, 1.4% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 88.8% on time, 3.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 86.4% on time, 2.2% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 80.9% on time, 4.3% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 82.1% on time, 4.5% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 87.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why departures were late

  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)32%
  • Extreme weather26%
  • Late-arriving aircraft22%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion20%
  • Security0%

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.