Route profile
SLC→ABQ
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Salt Lake City to Albuquerque, 493 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 100% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 3,430 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
SLC → ABQ arrives on time 90.2% of the time; the return trip, ABQ → SLC, arrives on time 93.3% of the time, a 3.1-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
SLC → ABQ spends 26.5 minutes on the ground on a 493-mile trip: 19.0 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at SLC and 7.6 minutes from touchdown to gate at ABQ.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 98% of 4,598 comparable routes.
A typical arrival is 10 min early, and the worst tenth are only 24 minutes worse than that.
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 4,598 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where SLC to ABQ differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
SLC to ABQ is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 8 PM: 88.6% arrive on time, 21.4 points ahead of the 67.2% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 21.2 points.
SLC to ABQ holds up on Mondays better than routes of similar length do: 93.0% on time to their 78.1%, a 14.9 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 15.8 points.
July is kinder to SLC to ABQ than to routes of similar length: 89.0% on time against 70.2%, 18.8 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 19.3 points.
SkyWest Airlines does better on SLC to ABQ than on its routes of similar length: 91.6% on time here, 80.1% there, 11.5 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 10.4 points.
SLC to ABQ against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 8 PM departures | 88.6% | routes of similar length | 67.2% | +21.4 pts | 298 here, 67,626 there |
| Weekday: Monday | 93.0% | routes of similar length | 78.1% | +14.9 pts | 501 here, 206,256 there |
| Month: July | 89.0% | routes of similar length | 70.2% | +18.8 pts | 417 here, 152,483 there |
| Airline: SkyWest Airlines | 91.6% | routes of similar length | 80.1% | +11.5 pts | 2,889 here, 72,206 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 493 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
July 2023 – July 2026
14 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 3,430 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at ABQ after arriving from SLC.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 21% | High risk |
| 45 min | 9.4% | Some risk |
| 60 min | 5.7% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 2.5% | Low risk |
| 120 min | 1.4% | 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 0.17% of the time and diverts 0.06% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 3,422 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 14 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 3,430 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
SLC → ABQ flights departing 12–3 PM arrived on time 94.8% of the time, against 86.2% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 8.6 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 8 AM: too few flights to score
- 9 AM: 93.6% on time from 951 flights
- 10 AM: 94.3% on time from 175 flights
- 11 AM to 1 PM: too few flights to score
- 2 PM: 94.8% on time from 175 flights
- 3 PM: 90.3% on time from 373 flights
- 4 PM: 85.8% on time from 332 flights
- 5 PM: 91.5% on time from 306 flights
- 6 PM to 7 PM: too few flights to score
- 8 PM: 88.6% on time from 299 flights
- 9 PM: 86.0% on time from 788 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why SLC → ABQ runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for SLC → ABQ. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 2,892 | 91.6% | 0.03% | -11 min | 2.2% |
| Delta Air Lines | 538 | 82.9% | 0.93% | -9 min | 5.1% |
SkyWest Airlines flew 84.3% of the 3,430 flights listed.
SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 8.7 percentage points more often than Delta Air Lines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| OO4084 SkyWest Airlines | 9:25 AM | 966 | 93.4% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Monday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 5.2 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 88.9%
- Feb: 91.0%
- Mar: 90.8%
- Apr: 85.7%
- May: 88.5%
- Jun: 90.6%
- Jul: 89.0%
- Aug: 90.1%
- Sep: 91.7%
- Oct: 95.2%
- Nov: 91.4%
- Dec: 90.5%
April is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 9.5 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: too few flights to score (92)
- August 2023: too few flights to score (93)
- September 2023: too few flights to score (88)
- October 2023: too few flights to score (89)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (81)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (84)
- January 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- February 2024: too few flights to score (78)
- March 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- April 2024: too few flights to score (86)
- May 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- June 2024: too few flights to score (87)
- July 2024: too few flights to score (89)
- August 2024: too few flights to score (92)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (92)
- November 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (90)
- January 2025: too few flights to score (88)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (78)
- March 2025: too few flights to score (91)
- April 2025: too few flights to score (90)
- May 2025: too few flights to score (113)
- June 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- July 2025: too few flights to score (119)
- August 2025: too few flights to score (99)
- September 2025: too few flights to score (90)
- October 2025: too few flights to score (92)
- November 2025: too few flights to score (88)
- December 2025: too few flights to score (90)
- January 2026: too few flights to score (86)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (78)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (92)
- April 2026: too few flights to score (90)
- May 2026: too few flights to score (113)
- June 2026: too few flights to score (116)
- July 2026: 86.7% from 120 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 91.8% against 91.1% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 3,430 SLC → ABQ 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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