UA5970United Airlines · SLC → SFO
live · 10m ago
Route confirmed United Airlines

UA5970 Salt Lake CitySLC · 09:04 San FranciscoSFO · 10:35

UA5970 by United Airlines flies from Salt Lake City (SLC) to San Francisco (SFO) for the Sun, Oct 25 departure.

Right nowLanded in San Francisco · today
11:09

arrived at SFO · 34 min late

Typical gate push+76 minmedian posted departure
Typical arrival+57 minmedian over 4 operations
Wins back in air~19 minmedian gate push vs arrival · how planes make up time →

Where the minutes go

last 4 operations · gate push → arrival
0+53+107+160 min
10-25
+9 gate · +34 arrival
10-24
+107 gate · +57 arrival
10-23
+76 gate · +34 arrival
10-22
+160 arrival

The bar is how late it left the gate; the ring is where it actually arrived. Board clocks, not estimates.

The route today

live boards
SLCSalt Lake CityOn-time likelySLC delay board →
SFOSan FranciscoOn-time likelySFO delay board →
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Weather lens

Delay & cancellation outlook for this flight

Measured, 90-day sample
44%Chance of 15+ min delay
0.8%Chance of cancellation
+14 minAvg hub delay right now

Conditions at SLC and SFO are near their clear-air norm right now, so this reflects the route's recent baseline rather than a weather penalty. For this route and airline, under conditions like today's, over the last 90 days.

Pro Flight Search tracking, 90 days · the weather × delay correlation study → · live weather risk by airport →

When it flies

scheduled departures
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Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time. Today is highlighted.

Other Salt Lake City to San Francisco flights today

same route · United Airlines
UA4763departs 06:00
UA5661departs 07:00
UA1552departs 09:30
UA5530departs 13:55
UA1225departs 16:20
UA5457departs 18:52

If UA5970 is cancelled, these are the other United Airlines nonstop flights from Salt Lake City to San Francisco on the same day, with scheduled departure times in SLC local time. Most flights posting a delay still operate — rebooking usually only beats a very large posted delay. Every airline on this route →

How UA5970 actually runs

Pro Flight Search has tracked every published board update for UA5970 across the SLC and SFO boards: schedule changes, gate pushes and actual clocks. Usually lands ~57 min late. Based on 4 confirmed landings · 0/4 within 15 min of schedule.

The verdict above is that record speaking, so it reflects how UA5970 operates rather than what the timetable promises. Numbers refresh as new flights operate.

Technical record

How this operation is measured

board clocksaircraft

Board log

scheduled → actual, per operation
10-25SLC 09:04 09:13 (+9)SFO 10:35 11:09 (+34)
10-24SLC 09:39 11:26 (+107)SFO 11:12 12:09 (+57)
10-23SLC 09:39 10:55 (+76)SFO 11:12 11:46 (+34)
10-22SLC SFO 11:12 13:52 (+160)

Aircraft

Recent tails: N109SY, N85379.

Board clocks recorded as SLC and SFO published them.

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