Press Releases

The Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) has been awarded a grant of $8,413,011 as part of the nearly $10 billion U.S. Transportation Department awards to airports contending with the massive decline in air travel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. BTR, which has the second highest passenger enplanements among Louisiana airports, received the second highest grant award in the State.As with airports across the country, BTR passenger enplanements...

Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) will hold its Triannual Mock Disaster Drill on Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 10am to 12pm. The drill is required once every three years by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for commercial airports. The Mock Disaster Drill is an emergency response exercise to test the Airport Emergency Plan in accordance with FAA requirements, and to improve emergency preparedness in the event of an actual aircra...

The American Red Cross has set up a base of operations at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) to coordinate their Hurricane Laura relief efforts. Approximately 160 Red Cross volunteers are temporarily being housed at the Emergency/National Disaster Multiplex Facility in the Airport’s Aviation Business Park. The volunteers are being shuttled to and from the Lake Charles region to support the recovery efforts. Emergency response vehi...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun using a state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scanner in the security checkpoint at Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR.) “The technology utilizes a sophisticated algorithm to analyze the content of the bag and allows TSA officers to rotate the image and ascertain that no threats are contained in the bag without needing to open the suitcase,” said Arden Hudson,...