Route reliability record
SLC→EUG
Salt Lake City to Eugene
- Flights
- 739
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 618 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 739 SLC to EUG flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly SLC to EUG: a 8pm–5am departure, ideally on a Saturday. Flights in that window arrived on time 94.5% of the time and Saturday flights 97.1%, against 93.5% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 159 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 739 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
SkyWest
93.5% on time across 739 flights
These figures cover 739 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on SLC to EUG
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 | 739 | 93.5% | 58 min | 0.00% | A+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on SLC to EUG
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.
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 739 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am254 flights92.5%
- 11am–2pm111 flights92.8%
- 2pm–5pm9 flights—
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am364 flights94.5%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 94.5% on time across 364 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 364 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 739 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 86.7%. August is the strongest month at 98.4%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 12 points. June was the busiest month here, with 69 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 97.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 89.5%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 88% of the 2,794 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 88%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,469 of the 2,794 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,794 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 618 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 93.5% on time across 739 flights, within half a point 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. 739 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in EUG after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 739 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 93.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 739 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SLC to EUG questions
How often is SLC to EUG delayed?
About one flight in fifteen arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 6.5% of the 739 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is SLC to EUG compared with the rest of the country?
93.5% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of 16 points in its favour. That is worth a A+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SLC to EUG?
The 8pm–5am departure window is the strongest at 94.5% on time. The 8am–11am window is the weakest at 92.5%, 2 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 April delays on SLC to EUG?
April is the weakest month at 86.7% on time, compared with 98.4% in August. Across the year that is 12 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
- EUG to SLC — the return legseparate record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- SLC to DEN, a related route77.8%
- SEA to EUG, a related route84.4%
- SLC to PHX, a related route83.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record93.5%
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
Direction matters. SLC to EUG and EUG to SLC 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.