Press Releases

The Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) hit a seven-year high of 822,425 total passengers in 2019, and experienced an increase of 8.6% through February 2020, before travel plummeted nationwide due to the COVID 19 pandemic. However, BTR’s passenger volume decline has lessened each month since the pandemic low-point in April. Total passenger count for September was 31,321, up from 25,175 in August. BTR passenger numbers have incr...

BTR Named a Finalist in Airport Council International’s – North America (ACI-NA) 2020 Excellence in Airport Marketing, Communications, and Customer Experience AwardsCategory: Marketing ProgramsThe winner in this category best demonstrates how marketing programs help define an airport’s product or service and create a strategy for communicating the message that will produce growth. This award will be given in three categories...

November 25, 2020 – Signature Flight Support, the world’s largest network of Fixed Base Operations (FBOs), has relocated its private aviation facilities at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Louisiana to a newly renovated terminal and hangar complex. The transition marks a major change in Signature’s on-airport presence following the company’s acquisition of its original Baton Rouge premises following the acquisitio...

JANUARY 12, 2021 – Signature Flight Support, the world’s largest network of Fixed Base Operations (FBOs), has relocated its private aviation facilities at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Louisiana to a newly renovated terminal and hangar complex. The transition marks a major change in Signature’s on-airport presence following the company’s acquisition of its original Baton Rouge premises following the acquisition o...