OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Salt Lake City to Philadelphia

1,926 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SLC–PHL arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 653 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-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights592
  • American Airlines
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9010 min
    Cancel11.5%
    Flights61

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)35%
  • Late aircraft27%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly SLC → PHL

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 76% to 90% on time.

  • Evenings90% on time · p90 10 min · 81 flights · limited
  • Mornings87% on time · p90 10 min · 101 flights · limited
  • Middays79% on time · p90 25 min · 902 flights
  • Overnights76% on time · p90 30 min · 811 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 20 min · 225 flights
  • Mondays82% on time · p90 20 min · 305 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 25 min · 307 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 239 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 25 min · 239 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 30 min · 306 flights
  • Sundays74% on time · p90 30 min · 305 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.