OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Salt Lake City

1,195 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.6%of scheduled flights

based on 1,912 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights999
  • United Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights913

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline47%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • 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 IAH → SLC

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 67% to 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 2,009 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 40 min · 1,561 flights
  • Afternoons81% on time · p90 45 min · 324 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 50 min · 1,401 flights
  • Overnights67% on time · p90 75 min · 686 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 81% on time.

  • Thursdays81% on time · p90 40 min · 869 flights
  • Saturdays81% on time · p90 35 min · 771 flights
  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 40 min · 868 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 45 min · 866 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 45 min · 871 flights
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 40 min · 877 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 50 min · 859 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.