Atlanta (ATL) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 2,559 km
- 1,590 mi · 1,382 nm
- Flight time
- 4 h 3 min / 3 h 32 min
- Average gate to gate: ATL → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 2 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 321 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (190 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 1,015,193
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −0.1%
- Flights / week
- 114
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 88%
- 1,153,190 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 2
- DL, F9
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from ATL
- 296°
- Heading from SLC
- 99°
- Halfway point
- 38.02, -97.54
- Great-circle km
- 2,554 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air ATL → SLC
- 3 h 39 min
- In the air SLC → ATL
- 3 h 7 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 2 h behind Atlanta
The estimate for a route without real times is 3 h 50 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
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| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 87,164 |
| Sep 2025 | 84,829 |
| Oct 2025 | 87,462 |
| Nov 2025 | 80,357 |
| Dec 2025 | 85,853 |
| Jan 2026 | 82,772 |
| Feb 2026 | 79,563 |
| Mar 2026 | 84,897 |
| Apr 2026 | 83,224 |
| May 2026 | 87,263 |
| Jun 2026 | 85,236 |
| Jul 2026 | 86,573 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 498 |
| Sep 2025 | 484 |
| Oct 2025 | 504 |
| Nov 2025 | 486 |
| Dec 2025 | 506 |
| Jan 2026 | 504 |
| Feb 2026 | 462 |
| Mar 2026 | 504 |
| Apr 2026 | 503 |
| May 2026 | 497 |
| Jun 2026 | 481 |
| Jul 2026 | 491 |
Airlines flying ATL–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 113 | 100% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 0.2 | 0% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 2,512 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 2,311 flights
- Boeing 767-300/300ER · 425 flights
- Boeing 757-300 · 196 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 189 flights
- Boeing 757-200 · 179 flights
- Airbus Industrie A350-900 · 22 flights
- Airbus Industrie A330-300/333 · 16 flights
Also carried: 1,644 tonnes of freight and 123 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 84.8%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 11 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.5%
- Flights counted
- 5,936
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 59% · aircraft arriving late 21% · air traffic system 16% · weather 4% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $506
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $435
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 79% of passengers · $572
- Lowest-fare airline
- Southwest Airlines
- 12% of passengers · $282
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $390 · Q3 2025 $406 · Q4 2025 $439 · Q1 2026 $506).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $517, likely $447–$589
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 100% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 2.8%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 4% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 2,554 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.
Every airport pair between Atlanta and Salt Lake City
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