Flights Tucson → Salt Lake City
TUS → SLC
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 Tucson (TUS) → Salt Lake City (SLC) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 380 flights monitored in recent months, 93% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of -1 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.26%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.3/100 (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 Tucson the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Salt Lake City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Tucson (TUS) to Salt Lake City (SLC) heads north for about 969 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 38m.
Departures from Tucson on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 51% of TUS-SLC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Tucson the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Salt Lake City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 380 tracked TUS-SLC flights, 93% left on time with an average delay of -1 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% |
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On the Tucson (TUS) -> Salt Lake City (SLC) route, on-time performance is 93% with an average delay of -1 minutes, based on 380 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Tucson-Salt Lake City is 0.26% across 380 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.
