The sector is held by Delta Air Lines, NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
OAK Oakland to SLC Salt Lake City
Oakland International, the United States, to Salt Lake City International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 945 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 42m
- Door to door
- 8h 27m
What OAK to SLC looks like
The OAK to SLC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Oakland OAK to Salt Lake City SLC is a short sector of 945 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 945 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 42m.
Oakland OAK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 149.8 departures a day. Salt Lake City SLC has 159 destinations and 420.7 departures a day.
Salt Lake City carries about 2.8 times the departures of Oakland, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Salt Lake City is one hour ahead of Oakland all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on OAK to SLC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAK to SLC | 5.57 | 39 | Delta Air Lines, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
| SLC to OAK | 5.43 | 38 | Delta Air Lines, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 5.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 77 departures a week on OAK to SLC, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 42m block time on OAK to SLC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to OAK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At OAK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| OAK to SLC in the air, estimated | 102 min | 6h 12m |
| Formalities at SLC | 90 min | 7h 42m |
| Delivery run in Salt Lake City | 45 min | 8h 27m |
| Door to door | 507 min | 8h 27m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for OAK to SLC is 8h 27m.
A courier who leaves Oakland at 09:00 local is on the ground in Salt Lake City at about 11:42 local and at the door by 13:57 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Salt Lake City, the last useful departure from Oakland is around 13:03 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 26 of them join OAK to SLC.
| Connecting at | OAK to hub, flights a day | Hub to SLC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose SJC | 1.57 | 6.29 | 986 | 3h 31m |
| San Francisco SFO | 1.43 | 10 | 980 | 3h 31m |
| Boise BOI | 1.29 | 7 | 1,289 | 3h 44m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 14.71 | 11 | 1,246 | 4h 20m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 6.57 | 11.57 | 1,492 | 4h 31m |
| San Diego SAN | 14.14 | 12.43 | 1,726 | 4h 35m |
With 5.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is San Jose SJC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SJC the routing covers 986 km against the 945 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 31m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 49m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, San Francisco SFO at 3h 31m and Boise BOI at 3h 44m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Oakland, San Francisco SFO is 18 km away by great circle and carries 189 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Oakland to Salt Lake City yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for OAK to SLC in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
More pairs through OAK and SLC: Seattle to Oakland, San Diego to Oakland, Oakland to Phoenix, Guadalajara to Oakland, Oakland to Las Vegas, Mexico City to Oakland, Leon and Silao to Oakland, Portland to Oakland.