Carrier route record
OOBOI→SLC
SkyWest Airlines · Boise to Salt Lake City
- Flights
- 513
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on BOI to SLC earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 513 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BOI to SLC record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 176 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 511 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.19%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
91.1%
Every carrier on BOI to SLC, 1,732 flights
These figures cover 513 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on BOI to SLC
SkyWest flew 513 of the 1,732 flights on BOI to SLC, about 30% of it. Its 94.9% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 91.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 94.9% to Delta at 89.4%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 513 | 94.9% | 69 min | 0.19% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,219 | 89.4% | 87 min | 1.31% | A |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 513 flights.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am242 flights96.7%
- 11am–2pm54 flights94.4%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm206 flights92.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 96.7% on time for the 8am–11am window against 92.6% for 5pm–8pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 242 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on BOI to SLC through the year
January is the weak month at 88.9% on time, against 100.0% in November. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. December was the busiest month here, with 66 flights.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 97.4% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 90.6%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on BOI to SLC runs when it is late
SkyWest on BOI to SLC often beats the schedule: 282 of 511 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early282 flights55.2%
- Within 15 min203 flights39.7%
- 15–29 min late11 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.4%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 511 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 31 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 12 still arrived on time. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on BOI to SLC
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 August 2026, 6 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | 6 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 March 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 July 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 December 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 78% of the 1,794 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 78%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,794 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,402 of the 1,794 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.19%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 290 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 91.8% on time across 513 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 513 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on BOI to SLC
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 513 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 94.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 511 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.