Flights Salt Lake City → Oakland
SLC → OAK
Route overview
The flight route from Salt Lake City to Oakland has an on-time performance rate of 84%, with flights typically experiencing a mean delay of 6.9 minutes. Over the past year, this route has seen 430 total flights operated by various aircraft models including Airbus A319, Airbus A320, and Boeing 737-300, serving Oakland International Airport, which opened in 1927 and currently handles over eleven million passengers annually.
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) → Oakland (OAK) route is operated by Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines. Across 601 flights monitored in recent months, 82% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.33%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 15.9/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Oakland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Salt Lake City (SLC) to Oakland (OAK) heads west for about 945 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 36m.
Departures from Salt Lake City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 41% of SLC-OAK flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Salt Lake City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Oakland it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 601 tracked SLC-OAK flights, 82% left on time with an average delay of 10 min and a 0.3% 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% |
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about SLC-OAK
On the Salt Lake City (SLC) -> Oakland (OAK) route, on-time performance is 82% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 601 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Salt Lake City-Oakland is 0.33% across 601 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines.
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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.
