Flights Raleigh-durham → Salt Lake City
RDU → SLC
Route overview
The flight route from Raleigh-Durham to Salt Lake City has a high on-time performance rate of 92%, with an average delay of just 2.6 minutes across the total of 89 flights recorded. This popular route serves one of the busiest airports in terms of annual passenger traffic, handling over 25 million passengers per year at its destination.
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 Raleigh-durham (RDU) → Salt Lake City (SLC) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 120 flights monitored in recent months, 90% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.67%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 8.5/100 (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 Raleigh-durham the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Salt Lake City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Raleigh-durham (RDU) to Salt Lake City (SLC) heads west for about 2,928 km, a flight time of roughly 4h 5m.
Departures from Raleigh-durham on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 74% of RDU-SLC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Raleigh-durham the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Salt Lake City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 120 tracked RDU-SLC flights, 90% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 1.7% 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 RDU-SLC
On the Raleigh-durham (RDU) -> Salt Lake City (SLC) route, on-time performance is 90% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 120 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Raleigh-durham-Salt Lake City is 1.67% across 120 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.
