Carrier route record
OOSLC→SNA
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Santa Ana
- Flights
- 151
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on SLC to SNA lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 151 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's SLC to SNA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.1%
Every carrier on SLC to SNA, 1,858 flights
These figures cover 151 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on SLC to SNA
SkyWest flew 151 of the 1,858 flights on SLC to SNA, about 8% of it. Its 82.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 86.5% to SkyWest at 82.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 101 | 86.5% | 68 min | 3.96% | A− |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,606 | 83.0% | 62 min | 0.50% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 151 | 82.0% | 67 min | 0.66% | B+ |
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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 151 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's SLC to SNA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 82.0% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on SLC to SNA through the year
- Oct–Dec 20251 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202650 flights87.8%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights82.6%
- Jul–Sep 202654 flights75.9%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.0% on time across 151 flights.
SkyWest on SLC to SNA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 75.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 50 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on SLC to SNA runs when it is late
SkyWest on SLC to SNA often beats the schedule: 46 of 150 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early46 flights30.7%
- Within 15 min77 flights51.3%
- 15–29 min late11 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late4 flights2.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late5 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 150 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on SLC to SNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 May 2026, 3 hours 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 January 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 July 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 June 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 1,802 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
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 1,802 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,201 of the 1,802 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, 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
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 588 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 84.7% on time across 151 flights, within 3 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. 151 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 SNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 151 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 82.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 150 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to SNA, every carrier
- SkyWest on SNA to SLC, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on SLC to SNA86.5%
- Delta Air Lines on SLC to SNA83.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) delay statistics
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.