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Southwest Airlines DEN to SLC on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Denver to Salt Lake City · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
73%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
9 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
51 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 5
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DEN to SLC arrived on time 73% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 50.2% on time, 0.9% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 67.7% on time, 1.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 76.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 74.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 81.7% on time, 2.2% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 70.1% on time, 0.5% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 87.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 80.9% on time, 1.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 70.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 73.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 68.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 54.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 66.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)39%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion7%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DEN to SLC

Full DEN to SLC comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

2,307 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 9 cancelled, 2 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.