Flights Colorado Springs → Salt Lake City
COS → SLC
Route overview
The flight route from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City boasts a high on-time performance rate of 94%, with an average delay of just 0.5 minutes across the total of 178 flights recorded. This popular route serves one of the busiest airports in terms of annual passengers, handling over 25 million travelers at the destination airport alone.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Colorado Springs (COS) → Salt Lake City (SLC) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 209 flights monitored in recent months, 94% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 0 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 9.4/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Colorado Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.2 minutes.
Heading to Salt Lake City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Colorado Springs (COS) to Salt Lake City (SLC) heads west for about 660 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 15m.
Departures from Colorado Springs on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 66% of COS-SLC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Colorado Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.2 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Salt Lake City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 209 tracked COS-SLC flights, 94% left on time with an average delay of 0 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
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Frequently asked questions about COS-SLC
On the Colorado Springs (COS) -> Salt Lake City (SLC) route, on-time performance is 94% with an average delay of 0 minutes, based on 209 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Colorado Springs-Salt Lake City is 0.00% across 209 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
