Route reliability record
SUN→SLC
Hailey to Salt Lake City
- Flights
- 1,078
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 222 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 17 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 1,078 SUN to SLC flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Best time to fly SUN to SLC: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 98.1% of the time and Tuesday flights 96.1%, against 93.8% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 165 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,068 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
93.8% on time across 1,078 flights
These figures cover 1,078 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 SUN to SLC
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 | 1,078 | 93.8% | 112 min | 0.74% | A+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on SUN to SLC
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 1,078 flights.
- 5am–8am363 flights98.1%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm361 flights90.3%
- 2pm–5pm342 flights93.2%
- 5pm–8pm12 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 90.3% on time against 98.1% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter SUN to SLC 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 SUN to SLC, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 98.1% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 90.3%, a real gap of 7.8 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am98.1%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm90.3%
- 2–5pm93.2%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
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 1,078 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
July is the worst month at 89.1% on time, 9 points below March, the best at 97.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 96.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 90.9%, a spread of 5 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 78% of the 7,420 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 78%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,420 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,758 of the 7,420 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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 3.3% 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 222 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 93.5% on time across 1,078 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. 1,078 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,078 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 93.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,068 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SUN to SLC questions
How often is SUN to SLC 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 6.2% of the 1,078 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is SUN to SLC compared with the rest of the country?
93.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 17 points in its favour. That is worth a A+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SUN to SLC?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 98.1% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 90.3%, 8 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 July delays on SUN to SLC?
July is the weakest month at 89.1% on time, compared with 97.8% in March. Across the year that is 9 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
- SLC to SUN — the return legseparate record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- DEN to SLC, a related route78.2%
- PHX to SLC, a related route83.0%
- LAX to SLC, a related route87.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record93.8%
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Direction matters. SUN to SLC and SLC to SUN 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.