Car Hire Baton Rouge Airport

Baton Rouge Airport Mini Guide

Baton Rouge Airport is known as Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport and has the airport code BRT. Car hire Baton Rouge Airport is good for business or pleasure as it takes only 20 minutes to drive to the Louisiana central business district. It is not the main airport in the state of Louisiana as the Armstrong state airport which is the main New Orleans airport. The airport is relatively small but still has around eight hundred thousand travellers going through its gates. The airport has a long history and was known as Harding Field Airport during World War II.

The United States Army Airport used Baton Rouge Airport as a base but today it is a public airport which is run by Baton Rouge Airport Authority. The airport is located in the East Baton Rouge Parish at map latitude 091.09.00 West and map longitude 30.31.58 North. The main flights are with Continental Express operated by Expressjet Airways or Chautauqua Airways to Houston Intercontinental. There are also US Airways Express flights to Charlotte via PSA Airlines and Delta Connection flights to Atlanta and Memphis.



Following Hurricane Katrina and the increased population of Baton Rouge there were more domestic flights initiated to major American destinations including Chicago O'Hare and Washington Reagan. Furthermore there are American Eagle flights to Dallas Fort Worth in Texas. All the flights from Baton Rouge Airport are domestic within the United States. Get car hire Baton Rouge Airport and you can be met as soon as you come off your flight. It is the quickest way to continue your journey.