Portland (PDX) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 1,013 km
- 630 mi · 547 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 49 min / 1 h 55 min
- Average gate to gate: PDX → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 127 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (75 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 600,342
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −2.4%
- Flights / week
- 99
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 84%
- 711,603 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 5
- DL, OO, QX
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 PDX
- 118°
- Heading from SLC
- 305°
- Halfway point
- 43.31, -117.08
- Great-circle km
- 1,012 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air PDX → SLC
- 1 h 27 min
- In the air SLC → PDX
- 1 h 33 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 1 h ahead of Portland
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 59,378 |
| Sep 2025 | 52,569 |
| Oct 2025 | 53,930 |
| Nov 2025 | 45,155 |
| Dec 2025 | 47,163 |
| Jan 2026 | 37,480 |
| Feb 2026 | 38,877 |
| Mar 2026 | 48,277 |
| Apr 2026 | 49,025 |
| May 2026 | 52,894 |
| Jun 2026 | 55,691 |
| Jul 2026 | 59,903 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 487 |
| Sep 2025 | 466 |
| Oct 2025 | 444 |
| Nov 2025 | 399 |
| Dec 2025 | 405 |
| Jan 2026 | 355 |
| Feb 2026 | 343 |
| Mar 2026 | 412 |
| Apr 2026 | 425 |
| May 2026 | 443 |
| Jun 2026 | 445 |
| Jul 2026 | 513 |
Airlines flying PDX–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 64 | 79% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 23 | 13% |
| QXHorizon Air | 7.9 | 4% |
| ASAlaska Airlines | 1.8 | 2% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 1.3 | 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
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 1,614 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 1,302 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 553 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 443 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 405 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 258 flights
- A200-100 BD-500-1A10 · 205 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 187 flights
Also carried: 136 tonnes of freight and 67 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 88.9%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 7 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.1%
- Flights counted
- 4,749
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 89.7% | 7 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 87.4% | 8 min |
| ASAlaska Airlines | 95.7% | 2 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 64.3% | 26 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 46% · aircraft arriving late 42% · air traffic system 9% · 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
- $211
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $197
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 65% of passengers · $228
- Lowest-fare airline
- Alaska Airlines
- 32% of passengers · $177
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $186 · Q3 2025 $195 · Q4 2025 $200 · Q1 2026 $211).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $215, likely $186–$246
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 81% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 6.9%). 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: Q4, typically 3% 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: 1,012 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.