Route profile
BUR→SLC
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Burbank to Salt Lake City, 574 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 97% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,397 flights. How this is calculated
BUR → SLC arrives on time 89.9% of the time; the return trip, SLC → BUR, arrives on time 86.6% of the time, a 3.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
BUR → SLC spends 26.2 minutes on the ground on a 574-mile trip: 19.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at BUR and 7.0 minutes from touchdown to gate at SLC.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route holds up about the same all year, a steadier seasonal pattern than 100% of 3,357 comparable routes.
92.6% on time in its best month (November) against 87.4% in its worst (January).
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 3,357 in the comparison.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
15 min late
against a median of 12 min early
Percentiles over 4,397 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at SLC after arriving from BUR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 21% | High risk |
| 45 min | 9.8% | Some risk |
| 60 min | 6.2% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 3.5% | Low risk |
| 120 min | 2.3% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 0.32% of the time and diverts 0.16% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,376 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 15 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 4,397 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
BUR → SLC flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 94.6% of the time, against 80.7% for 12–3 PM departures, a gap of 13.9 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 94.7% on time from 1,129 flights
- 8 AM: too few flights to score
- 9 AM: 93.9% on time from 510 flights
- 10 AM: 92.1% on time from 267 flights
- 11 AM: too few flights to score
- 12 PM: 88.7% on time from 242 flights
- 1 PM: 78.5% on time from 684 flights
- 2 PM: 78.4% on time from 163 flights
- 3 PM: 87.2% on time from 148 flights
- 4 PM: 91.8% on time from 548 flights
- 5 PM: 91.9% on time from 641 flights
- 6 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why BUR → SLC runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for BUR → SLC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 2,821 | 92.6% | 0.25% | -13 min | 2.2% |
| Delta Air Lines | 903 | 85.7% | 0.44% | -13 min | 7.2% |
| Southwest Airlines | 673 | 83.8% | 0.45% | -6 min | 3.6% |
SkyWest Airlines flew 64.2% of the 4,397 flights listed.
SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 8.8 percentage points more often than Southwest Airlines on this route.
Other ways to fly Los Angeles to Salt Lake City
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
| Route | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAX→SLC Los Angeles to Salt Lake City | 13,286 | 88.2% | 0.32% | -10 min | 87 |
| BUR→SLC this route Burbank to Salt Lake City | 4,397 | 89.9% | 0.32% | -12 min | 88 |
Flying to SLC from the Los Angeles area? Compare BUR, LAX, SNA, ONT for SLC, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| OO3681 SkyWest Airlines | 7:05 AM | 811 | 94.3% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 7.6 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 87.4%
- Feb: 91.9%
- Mar: 92.0%
- Apr: 91.7%
- May: 88.2%
- Jun: 90.7%
- Jul: 88.7%
- Aug: 89.2%
- Sep: 89.1%
- Oct: 88.4%
- Nov: 92.6%
- Dec: 89.5%
January is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 5.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 89.3% from 122 flights
- August 2023: 88.6% from 124 flights
- September 2023: too few flights to score (118)
- October 2023: 92.5% from 120 flights
- November 2023: too few flights to score (118)
- December 2023: 93.3% from 136 flights
- January 2024: 82.8% from 122 flights
- February 2024: too few flights to score (108)
- March 2024: 92.5% from 122 flights
- April 2024: too few flights to score (110)
- May 2024: too few flights to score (109)
- June 2024: too few flights to score (111)
- July 2024: too few flights to score (111)
- August 2024: too few flights to score (116)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (111)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (113)
- November 2024: too few flights to score (111)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (109)
- January 2025: too few flights to score (101)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (101)
- March 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- April 2025: too few flights to score (110)
- May 2025: 84.6% from 136 flights
- June 2025: 90.3% from 135 flights
- July 2025: 92.5% from 134 flights
- August 2025: 89.3% from 140 flights
- September 2025: 86.9% from 130 flights
- October 2025: 85.5% from 138 flights
- November 2025: 87.1% from 129 flights
- December 2025: 87.5% from 137 flights
- January 2026: too few flights to score (105)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (102)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (116)
- April 2026: too few flights to score (116)
- May 2026: too few flights to score (118)
- June 2026: too few flights to score (119)
- July 2026: 92.6% from 123 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 90.8% against 88.7% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.1 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,397 BUR → SLC flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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