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Kansas City (MCI) departure delays

4,581 departures · 53 routes · March 2025 – August 2026

73.67%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.24%

Cancelled

Share of departures

64 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#94

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about MCI

Departures from Kansas City run late more often than average — enough that a tight connection at the far end deserves a second look.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Delta Air Lines left on time 17.8 points more often than Southwest Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, MCI is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of MCI

Airline	Departures	On time
Delta Air Lines	739	88%
American Airlines	425	82.5%
United Airlines	438	80.2%
SkyWest Airlines	308	78.5%
Southwest Airlines	2,169	70.2%

Routes out of MCI

MCI → DEN Denver 420 flights · 76.14% on time C MCI → ORD Chicago 375 flights · 76.6% on time D MCI → ATL Atlanta 283 flights · 86.17% on time A MCI → DFW Dallas/Fort Worth 222 flights · 71.08% on time F MCI → MDW Chicago 195 flights · 73.06% on time C MCI → PHX Phoenix 183 flights · 78.57% on time C MCI → LGA New York 172 flights · 76.19% on time C MCI → DAL Dallas 167 flights · 64.81% on time D MCI → DCA Washington 164 flights · 73.25% on time D MCI → LAS Las Vegas 158 flights · 73.42% on time C MCI → LAX Los Angeles 150 flights · 82% on time B MCI → AUS Austin 128 flights · 71.65% on time C MCI → MCO Orlando 125 flights · 66.13% on time D MCI → SEA Seattle 123 flights · 90.16% on time A MCI → BNA Nashville 116 flights · 68.97% on time D MCI → MSP Minneapolis 114 flights · 88.6% on time A MCI → DTW Detroit 113 flights · 83.19% on time B MCI → MIA Miami 92 flights · 88.04% on time — MCI → PHL Philadelphia 90 flights · 88.89% on time — MCI → CLT Charlotte 90 flights · 84.27% on time — MCI → STL St. Louis 90 flights · 77.78% on time — MCI → HOU Houston 89 flights · 71.91% on time — MCI → BWI Baltimore 87 flights · 82.76% on time — MCI → SLC Salt Lake City 86 flights · 89.53% on time — MCI → BOS Boston 76 flights · 71.05% on time — MCI → IAH Houston 63 flights · 78.69% on time — MCI → TPA Tampa 60 flights · 73.33% on time — MCI → IAD Washington 60 flights · 86.44% on time — MCI → EWR Newark 60 flights · 90.91% on time — MCI → PDX Portland 38 flights · 81.58% on time — MCI → FLL Fort Lauderdale 36 flights · 77.78% on time — MCI → SAN San Diego 34 flights · 47.06% on time — MCI → PNS Pensacola 34 flights · 82.35% on time — MCI → MKE Milwaukee 34 flights · 64.71% on time — MCI → IND Indianapolis 30 flights · 73.33% on time — MCI → SFO San Francisco 30 flights · 30% on time — MCI → SMF Sacramento 27 flights · 66.67% on time — MCI → SAT San Antonio 26 flights · 57.69% on time — MCI → MSY New Orleans 26 flights · 69.23% on time — MCI → ECP Panama City 24 flights · 62.5% on time —