Dow Inc. returns to Baton Rouge the week layoffs reach its Gulf Coast plants

Dow Inc. flew N892D, its Bombardier CRJ-900, from Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on June 16, a 44-minute hop that landed the 90-seat regional jet at the company's Louisiana chemical complex.

The trip arrives the same week Dow confirmed it has started notifying roughly 4,500 workers globally about layoffs under its Transform to Outperform restructuring initiative, according to the Victoria Advocate [victoriaadvocate.com](https://victoriaadvocate.com/2026/06/12/dow-confirms-workforce-cuts-amid-transformation-initiative/). A worker at the Orange, Texas site told KFDM about 50 employees were informed of cuts there this week [kfdm.com](https://kfdm.com/news/local/dow-begins-notifying-about-4500-workers-about-impending-layoffs). Meanwhile, a separate $3.7 billion Sadara guarantee deadline passed on June 15 with no public filing from Dow, which has instead directed investors to expect a midyear update in late July, per a House of Saud report [houseofsaud.com](https://houseofsaud.com/sadara-37-billion-deadline-silence/).

The shuttle between Baton Rouge and Texas Gulf Coast is a familiar pattern: N892D has made at least a dozen round trips on this route since early May, moving engineering teams between Dow's Louisiana operations and its Seadrift chemical complex, where the company faces a state lawsuit over plastic pellet pollution.