Route reliability record
SLC→RDM
Salt Lake City to Redmond
- Flights
- 729
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 525 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 729 SLC to RDM flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly SLC to RDM: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.5% of the time and Monday flights 98.1%, against 93.2% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 159 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 719 completed flights
Avg delay
100 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.41%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
93.2% on time across 729 flights
These figures cover 729 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 SLC to RDM
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 | 729 | 93.2% | 100 min | 0.41% | A+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on SLC to RDM
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 729 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am211 flights93.4%
- 11am–2pm154 flights93.5%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am364 flights93.0%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 93.0% 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.
Explore
Filter SLC to RDM 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 SLC to RDM, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 93.5% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 93.0%, a narrow gap of 0.5 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am93.4%
- 11am–2pm93.5%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am93.0%
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 729 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
February is the weak month at 88.5% on time, against 100.0% in September. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 98.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 91.2%, a spread of 7 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 4,904 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 41%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 41% 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 6.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,904 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,615 of the 4,904 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.41%, 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 2.4% 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 525 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 91.0% on time across 729 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. 729 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
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 729 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 93.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 719 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SLC to RDM questions
How often is SLC to RDM 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 6.8% of the 729 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is SLC to RDM compared with the rest of the country?
93.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 16 points in its favour. That is worth a A+ on this site's grading scale.
Does the departure time change the odds on SLC to RDM?
Not by much in this data. Every departure window falls within half a point of the others, so there is no hour worth rearranging a trip for. The overall rate of 93.2% is the figure to plan against.
How bad are February delays on SLC to RDM?
February is the weakest month at 88.5% on time, compared with 100.0% in September. 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
- RDM to SLC — the return legseparate record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- SLC to DEN, a related route79.0%
- SEA to RDM, a related route84.9%
- SLC to PHX, a related route83.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record93.2%
- The most punctual routes in the US, and the least
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
Direction matters. SLC to RDM and RDM 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.