The sector is held by Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Libyan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SLC Salt Lake City to PDX Portland
Salt Lake City International, the United States, to Portland International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,012 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 48m
- Door to door
- 8h 33m
What SLC to PDX looks like
The SLC to PDX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Salt Lake City SLC to Portland PDX is a short sector of 1,012 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,012 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 48m.
Salt Lake City SLC is a major hub in the network held here, 159 scheduled destinations and 420.7 departures a day. Portland PDX has 105 destinations and 316 departures a day.
Portland is one hour behind of Salt Lake City 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 SLC to PDX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLC to PDX | 8.71 | 61 | Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Libyan Airlines |
| PDX to SLC | 8.29 | 58 | Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 8.7 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 119 departures a week on SLC to PDX, 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 48m block time on SLC to PDX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SLC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SLC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SLC to PDX in the air, estimated | 108 min | 6h 18m |
| Formalities at PDX | 90 min | 7h 48m |
| Delivery run in Portland | 45 min | 8h 33m |
| Door to door | 513 min | 8h 33m |
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 SLC to PDX is 8h 33m.
A courier who leaves Salt Lake City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Portland at about 09:48 local and at the door by 12:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Portland, the last useful departure from Salt Lake City is around 14:57 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. 42 of them join SLC to PDX.
| Connecting at | SLC to hub, flights a day | Hub to PDX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boise BOI | 6.71 | 5.71 | 1,019 | 3h 30m |
| Seattle SEA | 12.71 | 23 | 1,315 | 3h 58m |
| Oakland OAK | 5.43 | 7.57 | 1,820 | 4h 19m |
| Vancouver YVR | 3.43 | 5.57 | 1,685 | 4h 29m |
| San Francisco SFO | 9.43 | 14.14 | 1,848 | 4h 37m |
| San Jose SJC | 6.43 | 9.29 | 1,855 | 4h 37m |
With 8.7 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.
42 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Boise BOI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.7 times a day.
Through BOI the routing covers 1,019 km against the 1,012 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 30m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Seattle SEA at 3h 58m and Oakland OAK at 4h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Portland, Seattle SEA is 208 km away by great circle and carries 145 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Salt Lake City to Portland 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 SLC to PDX 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 SLC and PDX: Seattle to Portland, San Francisco to Portland, Phoenix to Portland, Portland to San Diego, Portland to Vancouver, Guadalajara to Portland, Denver to Portland, Portland to Charlotte.