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Route Reliability

Portland → Salt Lake City

PDXSLC · 630 miles · Portland International Airport to Salt Lake City International Airport

93
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
89%
Arrive within 15 minutes
2 min early
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
2,574
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Delta Air Lines91%1,699 flights
  2. 2.Alaska Airlines87%823 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (52 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

PDX–SLC flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 98% of the time, versus 84% between 6–9 PM.

Tuesday has been the better bet.

A small edge: 92% on time on Tuesdays against 87% on Thursdays.

Delta Air Lines has a slight edge here.

Delta Air Lines arrived on time 91% of the time on this route; Alaska Airlines managed 87%.

Ticking up lately.

PDX–SLC flights arrived on time 93% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 89% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(395 flights)
  • Tue92%(356 flights)
  • Wed91%(350 flights)
  • Thu87%(366 flights)
  • Fri88%(394 flights)
  • Sat88%(319 flights)
  • Sun87%(372 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM98%(364 flights)
  • 6–9 AM86%(309 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(520 flights)
  • 12–3 PM90%(513 flights)
  • 3–6 PM85%(535 flights)
  • 6–9 PM84%(311 flights)
On-time trend by month
92%
May

Jun 87% → May 92% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202587%231
July 202580%247
August 202586%242
September 202590%232
October 202590%221
November 202589%198
December 202587%199
January 202688%175
February 202693%169
March 202693%204
April 202694%213
May 202692%221

Based on 2,574 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.