OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Spokane to Sacramento

649 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on GEG–SMF arrive on time 86% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate86%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.1%of scheduled flights

based on 678 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time86%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.1%
    Flights678

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline36%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft51%
  • Security7%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly GEG → SMF

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 — 97% on time.

  • Mornings97% on time · p90 on time · 433 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 673 flights
  • Afternoons82% on time · p90 25 min · 284 flights
  • Evenings79% on time · p90 35 min · 517 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 83% to 90% on time.

  • Saturdays90% on time · p90 10 min · 185 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays88% on time · p90 15 min · 282 flights
  • Wednesdays88% on time · p90 15 min · 277 flights
  • Sundays85% on time · p90 25 min · 289 flights
  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 20 min · 297 flights
  • Mondays84% on time · p90 20 min · 301 flights
  • Fridays83% on time · p90 20 min · 302 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.