Route profile
CMH→SLC
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Columbus to Salt Lake City, 1,528 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
June 2024 – July 2026
Better than 97% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 782 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CMH → SLC arrives on time 91.1% of the time; the return trip, SLC → CMH, arrives on time 78.9% of the time, a 12.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CMH → SLC spends 23.7 minutes on the ground on a 1,528-mile trip: 14.7 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CMH and 9.0 minutes from touchdown to gate at SLC.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
What stands out
This route stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 97% of 4,598 comparable routes.
A typical arrival is 12 min early, and the worst tenth are only 25 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,598 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where CMH to SLC differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, June 2024 – July 2026.
CMH to SLC is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 8 AM: 95.1% arrive on time, 9.7 points ahead of the 85.4% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.2 points.
Delta Air Lines does better on CMH to SLC than on its routes of similar length: 91.1% on time here, 82.5% there, 8.6 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 9.6 points.
CMH to SLC against comparable routes
June 2024 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 8 AM departures | 95.1% | routes of similar length | 85.4% | +9.7 pts | 286 here, 120,021 there |
| Airline: Delta Air Lines | 91.1% | routes of similar length | 82.5% | +8.6 pts | 778 here, 327,601 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 1,528 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
When it goes wrong
June 2024 – July 2026
13 min late
against a median of 12 min early
Percentiles over 782 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at SLC after arriving from CMH.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 22% | High risk |
| 45 min | 8.5% | Some risk |
| 60 min | 4.9% | Low risk |
| 90 min | 3.0% | Low risk |
| 120 min | 2.6% | 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 0.51% of the time and diverts 0.00% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 778 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 13 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 782 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Why CMH → SLC runs late
June 2024 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CMH → SLC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 782 | 91.1% | 0.51% | -12 min | 3.0% |
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL2142 Delta Air Lines | 8:00 AM | 782 | 91.1% |
Reliability over time
June 2024 – July 2026
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 90.0% against 92.6% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 782 CMH → SLC flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering June 2024 – 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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