Los Angeles (LAX) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 949 km
- 590 mi · 512 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 48 min / 1 h 59 min
- Average gate to gate: LAX → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 119 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (71 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 1,093,873
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −2.3%
- Flights / week
- 163
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 80%
- 1,374,376 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 6
- DL, F9, 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 LAX
- 35°
- Heading from SLC
- 219°
- Halfway point
- 37.41, -115.34
- Great-circle km
- 949 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air LAX → SLC
- 1 h 24 min
- In the air SLC → LAX
- 1 h 29 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 1 h ahead of Los Angeles
The estimate for a route without real times is 1 h 55 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 85,053 |
| Sep 2025 | 88,312 |
| Oct 2025 | 95,810 |
| Nov 2025 | 82,363 |
| Dec 2025 | 93,116 |
| Jan 2026 | 99,024 |
| Feb 2026 | 93,671 |
| Mar 2026 | 101,290 |
| Apr 2026 | 91,075 |
| May 2026 | 89,334 |
| Jun 2026 | 88,362 |
| Jul 2026 | 86,463 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 615 |
| Sep 2025 | 680 |
| Oct 2025 | 706 |
| Nov 2025 | 651 |
| Dec 2025 | 720 |
| Jan 2026 | 795 |
| Feb 2026 | 756 |
| Mar 2026 | 849 |
| Apr 2026 | 692 |
| May 2026 | 661 |
| Jun 2026 | 666 |
| Jul 2026 | 676 |
Airlines flying LAX–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 94 | 69% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 18 | 14% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 30 | 7% |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 14 | 7% |
| UAUnited Air Lines | 5.7 | 2% |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 0.8 | 1% |
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 A321-200n · 2,172 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 1,792 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 1,509 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 1,002 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-200n · 530 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 430 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 346 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 262 flights
Also carried: 766 tonnes of freight and 36 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 87%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 9 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.5%
- Flights counted
- 8,380
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 86.8% | 9 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 89.7% | 9 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 87% | 11 min |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 81.3% | 9 min |
| UAUnited Air Lines | 90.2% | 6 min |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 90.9% | 3 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 53% · aircraft arriving late 36% · air traffic system 9% · weather 2% · 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
- $211
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $188
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 55% of passengers · $250
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 19% of passengers · $123
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $179 · Q3 2025 $173 · Q4 2025 $186 · Q1 2026 $211).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $215, likely $191–$245
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 86% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 7.7%). 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 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 949 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.