SLC Salt Lake City

How deep the SLC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SLC. This reads the same 159 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 75of the 159 destinations are flown by one airline
• 57destinations run less than once a day
• 35destinations have four or more departures a day
• 60.4%of the destinations name Delta Air Lines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SLC

65 airlines appear on the SLC board and they do not hold it evenly. Delta Air Lines is on 96 of the 159 destinations, 60.4 per cent of them, and on 36 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 391 of the 420.7 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is NetJets Aviation on 35 destinations. 39 of the 65 airlines at SLC appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 96 of the 159 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SLC sector is usually another Delta Air Lines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for SLC, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the SLC board is daily

Of the 159 destinations, 102 are flown at least once a day and 57 are not, 29 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SLC board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: SLC to Worland (WRL) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 76.3 of the 420.7 departures a day, 18.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 154 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at SLC usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Afton AFO	the United States	Libyan Airlines	1	230	plan this
Atlanta PDK	the United States	WUP	1	2,552	plan this
Bedford BED	the United States	Baker Aviation	1	3,354	plan this
Brigham City BMC	the United States	CAP	1	85	plan this
Chattanooga CHA	the United States	Delta Air Lines	1	2,424	plan this
Cody COD	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	480	plan this
Detroit YIP	the United States	PRE	1	2,363	plan this
Eagle EGE	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	448	plan this
Flagstaff FLG	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	629	plan this
Fort Worth FTW	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,571	plan this

The ten destinations out of SLC where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 31 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SLC

The desk holds the return direction for 61 of the 159 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into SLC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Edmonton (YEG) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Guadalajara (GDL) at 1.6 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 1.9 a day back into SLC against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SLC

SLC keeps America/Denver time, ten hours behind Dubai in summer and eleven hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 23:00 at SLC, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at SLC

3 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from SLC that lands inside it leaves around 04:51, on a modelled block of 10h 09m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from SLC that lands inside it leaves around 05:41, on a modelled block of 10h 19m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SLC that lands inside it leaves around 06:36, on a modelled block of 9h 54m. Those three departure times out of SLC are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where SLC turns up on the rest of this site

SLC carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the SLC transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 23 airport pair pages that start or end at SLC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Salt Lake City to Denver (DEN), Salt Lake City to Phoenix (PHX) and Salt Lake City to Seattle (SEA).

Six courier postings name SLC as the airport a courier here flies from: Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SLC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 159 destinations above.