Salt Lake City International in February 2024

85.9%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 8,723 domestic departures from Salt Lake City International (SLC). 85.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so SLC departures were 1.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SLC that month were on time 87.2% of the time (8,718 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, national aviation system 26% and late-arriving aircraft 20%.

On time 84.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.9%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from SLC in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	SLC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	85.9%	—	84.0%	84.0%
Arrived on time	84.6%	—	83.8%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	0.8%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.3 min	—	11.0 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	291	—	323	17,307
Scheduled departures	8,723	—	117,896	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	3,912	45%	85.4%	-2.4 min	0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	2,413	28%	88.9%	-4.2 min	0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	976	11%	76.2%	5.5 min	0.1%
UA United Airlines	428	5%	80.1%	6.9 min	0.7%
AA American Airlines	374	4%	85.3%	-4.8 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	193	2%	69.4%	13.9 min	0.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	191	2%	84.3%	-3.8 min	0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines	134	2%	79.1%	0.1 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	102	1%	85.3%	-3.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SLC–DEN	Salt Lake City to Denver	637	78.2%	6.7 min	0.5%
SLC–PHX	Salt Lake City to Phoenix	461	81.3%	-0.4 min	0.0%
SLC–LAX	Salt Lake City to Los Angeles	452	79.6%	2.4 min	0.0%
SLC–LAS	Salt Lake City to Las Vegas	383	77.8%	7.5 min	0.0%
SLC–DFW	Salt Lake City to Dallas/Fort Worth	314	86.6%	-3.5 min	0.0%
SLC–SEA	Salt Lake City to Seattle	269	88.5%	-8.7 min	0.0%
SLC–SFO	Salt Lake City to San Francisco	265	50.9%	26.7 min	3.0%
SLC–ATL	Salt Lake City to Atlanta	241	88.4%	-2.9 min	0.4%
SLC–ORD	Salt Lake City to Chicago	224	87.5%	-5.8 min	0.4%
SLC–SAN	Salt Lake City to San Diego	199	81.4%	1.0 min	0.0%
SLC–IAH	Salt Lake City to Houston	177	93.8%	-10.8 min	0.0%
SLC–JFK	Salt Lake City to New York	174	78.2%	3.0 min	0.6%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	45.1%	35.9%	32,497
Late-arriving aircraft	20.4%	36.9%	14,691
National Aviation System	25.9%	21.7%	18,692
Extreme weather	8.6%	5.3%	6,206
Security	0.0%	0.3%	29

72,115 delay minutes on 1,304 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left SLC on time in February 2024?

85.9% of 8,723 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for February 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SLC · methodology · corrections.