Today: only flights still to leave (it’s 12:51 pm at Oakland)

Monday, October 5 · our forecast odds · issued Mon 2:00 PM ET · connections flying that day

Today: Delta via Salt Lake City, leaving 17:05, is the safest bet: 87% chance of reaching Newark on time; the tightest one-ticket connections make it only 17% of the time.

Best connections today, one ticket

Ranked by chance you reach Newark on time, from each leg’s forecast for the day. Total trip = scheduled departure to arrival (Newark is 3 h ahead of Oakland). Layovers up to 4 hours. Pick a connection for its 12-month details.


Delta Details →	OAK 17:05 → SLC 19:57DL 3903 · flown by SkyWest	3h 41m Salt Lake City	SLC 23:38 → EWR 06:00 +1DL 2038	9h 55m	99%	87%
Tight connection: often missed
Alaska Details →	OAK 19:50 → SEA 21:50AS 1359	50m Seattle	SEA 22:40 → EWR 06:59 +1AS 314	8h 09m	17%	11%

How these are worked out. Each flight’s odds are our forecast for that day; flights of airlines we don’t forecast yet use their 12-month record and are marked. Makes the connection: the first flight’s 12-month lateness curve, scaled so its chance of arriving 15+ min late matches the day’s forecast, at the layover minus the 45-minute minimum (90 on separate tickets). Arrives on time: first flight not cancelled × connection made × second flight not cancelled × second flight within 15 minutes, each from the day’s forecast.

About this data: forecast odds from our model for Mon, Oct 5 (newest published update); 12-month records from US DOT on-time data, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026, all US airlines; regional flights count under the airline that sells them. JSON