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Airport name Role Enplanements (2019) Commercial service – primary airports: Alexandria: AEX: AEX KAEX Alexandria International Airport: P-N 141,173 Baton Rouge: BTR: BTR KBTR Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (Ryan Field) P-N 390,107 Lafayette: LFT: LFT KLFT Lafayette Regional Airport (Paul Fournet Field) P-N 223,529 Lake Charles: LCH: LCH KLCH
In September 2013, Baton Rouge Metro Airport announced the August passenger volume hit a 5 year high. The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport experienced its best August passenger count in five years. A total of 66,860 passengers passed through the airport for the month. The August departing passengers (enplanements) were up 11% at 33,465.
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport drop off lane. The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, located in the North Baton Rouge community of Scotlandville, is situated just 10 minutes north of downtown and nearby Baker. The airport serves as a vital transportation hub, connecting the area with the four major airline hubs that serve the southern United ...
During 1976-1977, Coastal Airways was operating nonstop service to both Baton Rouge (BTR) and New Orleans (MSY) with twin prop commuter aircraft. [9] [10] [11] By 1978, Royale Airlines, a regional air carrier based in Louisiana, was operating direct one stop service to New Orleans (MSY) via Houma, LA with Beechcraft 99 commuter turboprops. [12]
The hotel closed in 1985, and was mostly derelict until 2005. [5] It reopened after a $70 million renovation on August 30, 2006, as the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. [6] the hotel was also inducted into Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, since 2007. [7]
Tallest building used exclusively as a hotel in New Orleans. 7 Louisiana State Capitol: Baton Rouge: 460 (140) 34 1932 Tallest building in Baton Rouge, tallest building in Louisiana not located in New Orleans, and tallest capitol building in the United States. It is located on a 27-acre (110,000 m 2) tract, which includes the capitol gardens.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Flying Training Command used the airport as a cadet training center beginning in August 1942. The airfield was named Selman Army Airfield, named after a Navy Pilot, Lieutenant Augustus J. Selman, USN, a native of Monroe, Louisiana, who died in the line of duty at Norfolk, Virginia, on November 28, 1921, of injuries received in an airplane ...
Capital Area Transit System, labeling itself CATS, is a public transportation provider in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.It serves the city and several west bank suburbs [citation needed], but does not travel outside parish boundaries or across the Mississippi River.