Carrier route record
OOSLC→RNO
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Reno
- Flights
- 471
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 39%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on SLC to RNO 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 471 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's SLC to RNO record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 471 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
87.7%
Every carrier on SLC to RNO, 1,201 flights
These figures cover 471 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
SkyWest against every carrier on SLC to RNO
SkyWest flew 471 of the 1,201 flights on SLC to RNO, about 39% of it. Its 90.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 87.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 90.2% to Delta at 86.1%.
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) | 471 | 90.2% | 67 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 730 | 86.1% | 64 min | 0.27% | A+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on SLC to RNO
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am73 flights95.9%
- 8am–11am40 flights100.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm358 flights88.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 100.0% of the time, against 88.0% for the afternoon window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 358 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on SLC to RNO through the year
October is the best month on the calendar at 96.2% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 58 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 95.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 84.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on SLC to RNO runs when it is late
SkyWest on SLC to RNO often beats the schedule: 164 of 471 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early164 flights34.8%
- Within 15 min261 flights55.4%
- 15–29 min late12 flights2.5%
- 30–59 min late14 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 471 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on SLC to RNO
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 August 2026, 5 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 October 2025 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 3,069 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 4.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,069 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,251 of the 3,069 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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 costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% 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 422 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 runs 90.4% on time across 471 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. 471 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 SLC to RNO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 471 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 90.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 471 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to RNO, every carrier
- SkyWest on RNO to SLC, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on SLC to RNO86.1%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.