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SLC vs JAC - 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
JAC

Jackson, WY

Jackson, Wyoming

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric SLC JAC
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 85.8% 80.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 76.0 min 92.4 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 14.2% 19.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.57% 0.95%
Total Flights 1,319,985 64,902
Delayed Flights 186,884 12,496
Cancelled Flights 7,511 616
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ 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%

JAC - Jackson, WY

Late Aircraft 39.1%
Carrier 33.7%
NAS 18.3%
Weather 8.8%
Security 0.1%

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 JAC

Route Flights On-Time
DEN → JAC
Jackson
7,793 80.4%
JAC → DEN
Denver
7,792 77.6%
JAC → SLC
Salt Lake City
6,800 83.9%
SLC → JAC
Jackson
6,773 85.7%
JAC → ORD
Chicago
3,657 76.8%
ORD → JAC
Jackson
3,652 78.6%

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.