Press Releases
ARC Baton Rouge Plane Pull at BTR was Plane Amazing
News Release - Baton Rouge, LA –For Immediate Release, October 23, 2017 Great weather and one the best turnouts made for a successful 10th Annual Plane Pull Fundraiser for ARC Baton Rouge at BTR this past Saturday. Teams of 25 people competed to pull a FedEx 757 jet, weighing 147,000 pounds and estimated at around 189,000 pounds with the fuel on board, for a distance of 12 feet. Net proceeds generated from the event will go to fund...
Baton Rouge Metro Airport Hosts Ribbon Cutting For New Multiplex Facility
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...
Passenger Volume Continues to Climb at Baton Rouge Metro Airport
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...
Baton Rouge Metro Council Appoints Interim Airport Director
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...