On-Time Report

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Airport month · July 2024

Salt Lake City International in July 2024

74.1%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 9,946 domestic departures from Salt Lake City International (SLC). 74.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.0% reached their destination on time; 3.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so SLC departures were 5.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SLC that month were on time 75.9% of the time (9,947 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 58%, late-arriving aircraft 27% and national aviation system 10%.

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

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

MeasureJul 2024Year earlierSLC, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time74.1%—84.0%68.5%
Arrived on time74.0%—83.8%68.1%
Cancelled3.3%—0.8%2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)19.9 min—11.0 min24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day332—32321,154
Scheduled departures9,946—117,896634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines4,84949%68.8%18.1 min5.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,71027%86.0%2.2 min0.1%
WN Southwest Airlines1,04811%76.8%6.3 min0.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines3123%59.3%20.3 min6.1%
AA American Airlines3063%67.0%20.2 min1.0%
UA United Airlines3033%69.0%13.1 min4.6%
NK Spirit Airlines1762%68.2%10.0 min0.6%
AS Alaska Airlines1101%70.0%11.3 min2.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways931%64.5%49.4 min2.2%
HA Hawaiian Airlines310%96.8%-19.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air80%100.0%-13.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SLC–DENSalt Lake City to Denver70373.1%10.5 min2.1%
SLC–PHXSalt Lake City to Phoenix44373.6%12.1 min2.3%
SLC–SEASalt Lake City to Seattle39769.0%12.7 min2.5%
SLC–LASSalt Lake City to Las Vegas38063.9%18.7 min3.9%
SLC–DFWSalt Lake City to Dallas/Fort Worth34973.9%15.5 min2.6%
SLC–LAXSalt Lake City to Los Angeles33572.8%13.8 min4.5%
SLC–SFOSalt Lake City to San Francisco28976.8%9.5 min3.1%
SLC–ATLSalt Lake City to Atlanta24969.9%18.7 min5.6%
SLC–SANSalt Lake City to San Diego24272.7%12.1 min4.1%
SLC–ORDSalt Lake City to Chicago22967.2%13.1 min5.7%
SLC–PDXSalt Lake City to Portland21978.5%7.7 min4.6%
SLC–SMFSalt Lake City to Sacramento18073.9%9.5 min5.0%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2024Minutes
Air carrier58.3%36.6%102,171
Late-arriving aircraft27.4%42.7%48,102
National Aviation System10.2%16.0%17,898
Extreme weather4.1%4.6%7,103
Security0.0%0.1%24
175,298 delay minutes on 2,218 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left SLC on time in July 2024?

74.1% of 9,946 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.