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SLC vs HNL - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
SLC

Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City, Utah

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Airport B
HNL

Honolulu, HI

Honolulu, Hawaii

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric SLC HNL
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 85.8% 84.6%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 76.0 min 62.1 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 14.2% 15.4%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.57% 0.63%
Total Flights 1,319,985 631,778
Delayed Flights 186,884 97,030
Cancelled Flights 7,511 4,006
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

SLC - Salt Lake City, UT

Carrier 50.6%
Late Aircraft 25.1%
NAS 16.2%
Weather 8.1%
Security 0.1%

HNL - Honolulu, HI

Carrier 53.5%
Late Aircraft 37.3%
NAS 7.0%
Weather 1.6%
Security 0.5%

Top Routes

Top routes from SLC

Route Flights On-Time
DEN → SLC
Salt Lake City
43,089 78.3%
SLC → DEN
Denver
43,051 78.8%
SLC → PHX
Phoenix
30,395 83.2%
PHX → SLC
Salt Lake City
30,355 84.5%
LAX → SLC
Salt Lake City
27,163 87.1%
SLC → LAX
Los Angeles
27,094 84.2%

Top routes from HNL

Route Flights On-Time
HNL → OGG
Kahului
60,102 86.7%
OGG → HNL
Honolulu
60,101 84.7%
HNL → LIH
Lihue
42,503 87.2%
LIH → HNL
Honolulu
42,502 86%
KOA → HNL
Honolulu
41,340 86.9%
HNL → KOA
Kona
41,330 87.8%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.