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News Release - Baton Rouge, LA –For Immediate Release, January 9, 2018The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport hosted a ribbon-cutting today for its new Emergency/National Disaster Multiplex. The 24,000 square foot facility, which was in the planning stages for nearly a decade as funding sources were pursued, is located in the Airport’s Aviation Business Park on the north end of the airfield.Interim Director of Aviation Ralph Hen...

Total passenger volume at Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) was up 7% in February 2018 over the same month in 2017 at 61,641 passengers. Passenger enplanements for February 2018 reached 30,837, up 6.2%, while passenger deplanements were up 8.7% at 30,804. American Airlines had the top BTR passenger share in February at 38%, followed by Delta at 35% and United at 27%. BTR’s passenger count has been up 16 of the past 1...

Mike Edwards was appointed the Interim Director of Aviation for the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) by the Metro Council at Wednesday’s meeting. Now in his fourth year as the BTR Airport Operations Manager, Mr. Edwards has over 10 years of airport management experience. He was the Senior Airport Operations Supervisor at the New Orleans International Airport for four years, and prior to that, he was the Airport Operations Sup...

News Release - Baton Rouge, LA –For Immediate Release, January 11, 2018 Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR) passenger enplanements for 2017 were up 4%. A total of 775,408 passengers traveled through the airport in during 2017 on scheduled commercial flights. BTR’s passenger count has been up 14 of the past 15 months dating back to September of 2016. The Airport also had 156 charter flights in 2017 on aircraft rangin...