Carrier route record
OOSLC→SBA
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Santa Barbara
- Flights
- 934
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 88%
- 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 SBA 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 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 934 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's SLC to SBA record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 156 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 925 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
92.0%
Every carrier on SLC to SBA, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 934 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
SkyWest against every carrier on SLC to SBA
SkyWest flew 934 of the 1,062 flights on SLC to SBA, most of the route. Its 92.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 92.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 92.9% to Delta at 85.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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) | 934 | 92.9% | 53 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 128 | 85.4% | 68 min | 3.12% | A− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on SLC to SBA
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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 934 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am334 flights93.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm235 flights87.6%
- 5pm–8pm2 flights—
- 8pm–5am363 flights96.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 96.1% on time across 363 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 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on SLC to SBA through the year
February is the weak month at 82.5% on time, against 98.9% in June. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 96.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 85.6%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on SLC to SBA runs when it is late
SkyWest on SLC to SBA often beats the schedule: 325 of 925 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 66 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early325 flights35.1%
- Within 15 min534 flights57.7%
- 15–29 min late30 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late16 flights1.7%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 925 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 70 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 21 still arrived on time. Only 17 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on SLC to SBA
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 August 2026, 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 February 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 May 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 August 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 3,463 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 27%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 27% 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 4.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,463 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,177 of the 3,463 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.43%, 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 2.2% 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.
The 615 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 94.8% on time across 934 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. 934 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 934 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 92.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 925 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to SBA, every carrier
- SkyWest on SBA to SLC, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on SLC to SBA85.4%
- 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.