OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Atlanta to Salt Lake City

1,589 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ATL–SLC arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 2,944 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights2,944

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline49%
  • Weather11%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft25%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly ATL → SLC

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 1,156 flights
  • Middays88% on time · p90 15 min · 2,752 flights
  • Afternoons83% on time · p90 25 min · 1,656 flights
  • Evenings78% on time · p90 40 min · 2,147 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 50 min · 1,229 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 87% on time.

  • Tuesdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 1,254 flights
  • Wednesdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 1,268 flights
  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 1,251 flights
  • Thursdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,279 flights
  • Mondays82% on time · p90 25 min · 1,300 flights
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,294 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,294 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.