Flights Great Falls → Salt Lake City
GTF → SLC
Route overview
The flight route from Great Falls to Salt Lake City boasts a high on-time performance rate of 89%, with an average delay of just 1.8 minutes across the total of 260 flights recorded. The destination airport, which sees over 25 million passengers annually, is well-equipped to handle this traffic efficiently.
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 Great Falls (GTF) → Salt Lake City (SLC) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 343 flights monitored in recent months, 87% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.87%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 15.4/100 (medium), 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 Great Falls the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes.
Heading to Salt Lake City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Great Falls (GTF) to Salt Lake City (SLC) heads south for about 746 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 21m.
Departures from Great Falls on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 35% of GTF-SLC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Great Falls the average ATFM delay is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Salt Lake City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 343 tracked GTF-SLC flights, 87% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 0.9% 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 GTF-SLC
On the Great Falls (GTF) -> Salt Lake City (SLC) route, on-time performance is 87% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 343 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Great Falls-Salt Lake City is 0.87% across 343 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
Enter your flight number on FlightGuard for a real-time analysis based on 9 factors: weather at Salt Lake City, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel, airline punctuality and recent trends.
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.
