Saint Paul (MSP) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 1,595 km
- 991 mi · 861 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h 51 min / 2 h 27 min
- Average gate to gate: MSP → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 200 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (118 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 545,869
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −1.3%
- Flights / week
- 67
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 86%
- 634,410 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 3
- DL, SY, 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 MSP
- 260°
- Heading from SLC
- 67°
- Halfway point
- 43.22, -102.91
- Great-circle km
- 1,592 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MSP → SLC
- 2 h 26 min
- In the air SLC → MSP
- 2 h 4 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 1 h behind Saint Paul
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 40 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 50,864 |
| Sep 2025 | 43,511 |
| Oct 2025 | 44,051 |
| Nov 2025 | 39,094 |
| Dec 2025 | 43,047 |
| Jan 2026 | 39,499 |
| Feb 2026 | 36,310 |
| Mar 2026 | 45,645 |
| Apr 2026 | 43,604 |
| May 2026 | 49,427 |
| Jun 2026 | 53,658 |
| Jul 2026 | 57,159 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 305 |
| Sep 2025 | 263 |
| Oct 2025 | 278 |
| Nov 2025 | 265 |
| Dec 2025 | 276 |
| Jan 2026 | 267 |
| Feb 2026 | 233 |
| Mar 2026 | 295 |
| Apr 2026 | 303 |
| May 2026 | 328 |
| Jun 2026 | 332 |
| Jul 2026 | 353 |
Airlines flying MSP–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 61 | 93% |
| SYSun Country Airlines | 4.7 | 7% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 1.1 | 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
- Boeing 737-900ER · 1,755 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 1,051 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 261 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 238 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 100 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 37 flights
- Bombardier CRJ550 · 16 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 10 flights
Also carried: 122 tonnes of freight and 19 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 86.2%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 8 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.4%
- Flights counted
- 3,187
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 58% · aircraft arriving late 21% · air traffic system 18% · 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
- $412
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $324
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 77% of passengers · $468
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 6% of passengers · $147
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $298 · Q3 2025 $286 · Q4 2025 $332 · Q1 2026 $412).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $421, likely $364–$480
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 95% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 4.6%). 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
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: 1,592 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.