Route reliability record
OMA→SLC
Omaha to Salt Lake City
- Flights
- 781
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 840 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 781 OMA to SLC flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly OMA to SLC: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.2% of the time and Friday flights 95.5%, against 91.1% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 777 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.13%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
91.1% on time across 781 flights
These figures cover 781 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Which airline is most reliable on OMA to SLC
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 | 781 | 91.1% | 53 min | 0.13% | A+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on OMA to SLC
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
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 781 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am365 flights92.8%
- 11am–2pm73 flights93.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm343 flights88.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 93.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Explore
Filter OMA to SLC by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On OMA to SLC, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 93.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 88.9%, a narrow gap of 4.3 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am92.8%
- 11am–2pm93.2%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm88.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 781 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
January is the weak month at 86.0% on time, against 95.2% in May. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 89 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 95.5% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 89.1%, a spread of 6 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 62% of the 3,638 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Carrier
- 26%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,638 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,248 of the 3,638 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.13%, 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 actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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.
The 840 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 89.2% on time across 780 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 781 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.
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What to do with this
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 781 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 91.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 777 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
OMA to SLC questions
How often is OMA to SLC delayed?
About one flight in twelve arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 8.9% of the 781 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average.
How reliable is OMA to SLC compared with the rest of the country?
91.1% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 14 points in its favour. That is worth a A+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on OMA to SLC?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 93.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 88.9%, 4 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are January delays on OMA to SLC?
January is the weakest month at 86.0% on time, compared with 95.2% in May. Across the year that is 9 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to OMA — the return legseparate record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- OMA to DEN, a related route75.8%
- DEN to SLC, a related route78.2%
- OMA to ORD, a related route74.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record91.1%
- The most punctual routes in the US, and the least
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
Direction matters. OMA to SLC and SLC to OMA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.