Flights Salt Lake City → Honolulu
SLC → HNL
Route overview
The flight route from Salt Lake City to Honolulu operates with a Boeing 767-300 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 77%, with an average delay of 17.8 minutes per flight. Over the course of a year, this destination airport serves approximately 21,188,678 passengers, indicating high traffic volume.
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 Salt Lake City (SLC) → Honolulu (HNL) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 270 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 17 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.85%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Honolulu the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Honolulu: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Salt Lake City (SLC) to Honolulu (HNL) heads west for about 4,813 km, a flight time of roughly 6h 26m.
Departures from Salt Lake City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 74% of SLC-HNL flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Honolulu it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 270 tracked SLC-HNL flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 17 min and a 1.9% 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 SLC-HNL
On the Salt Lake City (SLC) -> Honolulu (HNL) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 17 minutes, based on 270 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Salt Lake City-Honolulu is 1.85% across 270 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.
