Austin (AUS) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 1,747 km
- 1,086 mi · 944 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h 54 min / 2 h 43 min
- Average gate to gate: AUS → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 220 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (130 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 401,756
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · +6.7%
- Flights / week
- 69
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 81%
- 497,053 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 3
- DL, WN, OO
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 AUS
- 316°
- Heading from SLC
- 128°
- Halfway point
- 35.71, -104.35
- Great-circle km
- 1,747 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air AUS → SLC
- 2 h 31 min
- In the air SLC → AUS
- 2 h 16 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 1 h behind Austin
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 50 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
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| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 33,773 |
| Sep 2025 | 32,472 |
| Oct 2025 | 36,982 |
| Nov 2025 | 30,144 |
| Dec 2025 | 32,905 |
| Jan 2026 | 28,936 |
| Feb 2026 | 29,468 |
| Mar 2026 | 35,680 |
| Apr 2026 | 30,069 |
| May 2026 | 31,829 |
| Jun 2026 | 38,900 |
| Jul 2026 | 40,598 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 291 |
| Sep 2025 | 272 |
| Oct 2025 | 306 |
| Nov 2025 | 268 |
| Dec 2025 | 280 |
| Jan 2026 | 268 |
| Feb 2026 | 281 |
| Mar 2026 | 345 |
| Apr 2026 | 298 |
| May 2026 | 296 |
| Jun 2026 | 327 |
| Jul 2026 | 338 |
Airlines flying AUS–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 41 | 64% |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 18 | 29% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 9.6 | 7% |
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 A320-100/200 · 1,076 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 557 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 497 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 432 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 334 flights
- A200-100 BD-500-1A10 · 309 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 210 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 150 flights
Also carried: 68 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 82.3%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 13 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.7%
- Flights counted
- 3,569
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 85.5% | 12 min |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 73.1% | 16 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 86.3% | 9 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 48% · aircraft arriving late 37% · air traffic system 11% · weather 3% · 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
- $337
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $280
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 61% of passengers · $377
- Lowest-fare airline
- Southwest Airlines
- 32% of passengers · $276
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $257 · Q3 2025 $239 · Q4 2025 $283 · Q1 2026 $337).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $344, likely $298–$392
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 90% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 7.2%). 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 6% 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: 1,747 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.