Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport

ICAO KBTR30.5332°N 91.1496°W70 ft / 21 mMedium airport

Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (IATA: BTR, ICAO: KBTR) is a medium airport in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It opened in 1942. It has 3 runways; the longest is 7,500 ft (2,286 m). In 2025 it handled 840 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942

1942

OpenedBaton Rouge Metropolitan Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

04L/22R043° / 223° · LIT

LENGTH7,500 ft2,286 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete

13/31133° / 313° · LIT

LENGTH7,005 ft2,135 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

04R/22L043° / 223° · LIT

LENGTH3,799 ft1,158 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

786K

737K

735K

759K

785K

803K

360K

558K

664K

762K

839K

840K

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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round5

IAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Express407 km253 mi DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Eagle616 km383 mi ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines721 km448 mi CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,085 km674 mi DCARonald Reagan Washington National AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,584 km984 mi

Most destinationsAmerican Eagle 3United Express 1Delta Air Lines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BTR. From the Wikipedia article “Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport” (revision of 27 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers840K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#896of 3,974 · #215 North America · #151 US Longest runway7,500 ft2,286 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,114of 29,823 · =673 North America · =500 US Elevation70 ft21 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,166of 43,341 · =17,329 North America · =14,406 US AgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =885 US Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

8 channels

A/DAPP/DEP120.300

ATISATIS125.200

CLDCLNC DEL119.400

CTAFCTAF118.450

GNDGND121.900

RDODE RIDDER RDO122.200

TWRTWR118.450

UNICUNICOM122.950