Lafayette Regional Airport

Lafayette Regional Airport
The former Lafayette Regional Airport terminal from the tarmac before the new terminal was opened on January 20, 2022
IATA: LFT ICAO: KLFT FAA LID: LFT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City & Parish of Lafayette
Operator	Lafayette Airport Commission
Serves	Lafayette, Louisiana
Location	Lafayette Parish, near Lafayette, Louisiana
Elevation AMSL	42 ft / 13 m
Coordinates	30°12′19″N 91°59′15″W / 30.20528°N 91.98750°W / 30.20528; -91.98750
Website	www.LFTairport.com
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 04L/22R 4,099 1,249 Asphalt 04R/22L 8,000 2,438 Asphalt 11/29 5,400 1,646 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 50 15 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations (year ending 2/28) 45,467 Based aircraft 138
Sources: airport website[1] and FAA[2]

Lafayette Regional Airport(French: Aéroport régional de Lafayette) (IATA: LFT, ICAO: KLFT, FAA LID: LFT) is a public use airport two miles (4 km) southeast of Lafayette, in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned and operated by the City Parish of Lafayette.

The Lafayette Regional airport is located next to U.S. Highway 90 (future Interstate 49) on the east side of the city, close to offshore oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico. Lafayette Regional is home to one of the largest helicopter companies in the world, Petroleum Helicopters International (formerly PHI-Petroleum Helicopters Inc.).

Lafayette Regional airport does not have international flights; however, regional jet service is operated nonstop to four hubs: Atlanta (ATL), Charlotte (CLT),^[3] Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Houston (IAH). Delta Air Lines began mainline Boeing 717-200 jet service nonstop to Atlanta effective July 3, 2014, in addition to its regional jet flights operated by Delta Connection, however the mainline service was discontinued. United Airlines began expanded service from Lafayette featuring a new daily nonstop flight to Denver which became effective August 19, 2014, and was operated by its regional partner United Express until this flight was discontinued on October 23, 2015.^[4] Delta, via Delta Connection, previously provided nonstop service from Lafayette to its hub in Memphis, Tennessee, until 2011. Allegiant Air initiated nonstop service to Las Vegas on November 3, 2011, but then discontinued these flights in February 2012.^[5] Frontier Airlines began new service into Lafayette with Airbus A320 jetliners effective October 24, 2018 with two nonstop flights a week to Denver (DEN) as well as two nonstop flights a week to Orlando (MCO), with both of these destinations being hub cities for Frontier.^[6] Frontier ended its seasonal service to Orlando from Lafayette in August 2019 and then ended its seasonal service from Lafayette to Denver on November 10, 2019, with flights to both cities planned to resume in the spring of 2020.^[7] However, Frontier has since stated it will not be resuming flights from Lafayette with its service now suspended indefinitely.^[8]