Dow flies from Texas to Baton Rouge on a routine plant shuttle

Dow flew from Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on May 12, a 41-minute hop aboard its Bombardier CRJ-900, tail N892D. The flight is one of several this week between the two locations, part of a pattern visible in recent tracking data.

The same week, Dow is navigating a leadership transition: Jim Fitterling will become Executive Chair and Karen S. Carter will take over as CEO on July 1, per a company announcement [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dow-chair-and-ceo-jim-fitterling-to-become-executive-chair-karen-s-carter-appointed-chief-executive-officer-302741591.html). While no specific Baton Rouge event is tied to this flight, the company's CRJ-900 is used to shuttle large engineering teams between its major Gulf Coast sites, as noted in a ch-aviation profile of Dow's fleet [ch-aviation.com](https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/99317-us-multinational-dow-chemical-adds-first-crj900).

Dow's home base is Midland, Michigan, but Baton Rouge serves as a key operational hub. The repeated trips between Texas and Louisiana this month suggest ongoing work at the company's Freeport and Baton Rouge complexes — routine logistics for a materials science company with 29 countries of operations.