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Airport month · October 2023
Kansas City International in October 2023
BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.
In October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 4,323 domestic departures from Kansas City International (MCI). 82.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so MCI departures were 1.0 points below the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at MCI that month were on time 80.5% of the time (4,323 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 12%.
- On time 84.6%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.0%
- Cancelled 0.3%
- Diverted 0.1%
October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Oct 2023 | Year earlier | MCI, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Oct 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 82.8% | — | 77.8% | 83.8% |
| Arrived on time | 84.6% | — | 78.7% | 84.0% |
| Cancelled | 0.3% | — | 1.5% | 0.4% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 10.5 min | — | 15.7 min | 11.0 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 144 | — | 135 | 19,966 |
| Scheduled departures | 4,323 | — | 49,298 | 598,968 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 2,219 | 51% | 81.5% | 3.1 min | 0.1% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 640 | 15% | 92.2% | -8.1 min | 0.2% |
| AA American Airlines | 462 | 11% | 83.5% | 10.3 min | 0.4% |
| UA United Airlines | 346 | 8% | 89.3% | -1.6 min | 0.0% |
| YX Republic Airline | 122 | 3% | 94.3% | -10.1 min | 0.0% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 121 | 3% | 79.3% | 3.4 min | 5.0% |
| OH PSA Airlines | 119 | 3% | 91.6% | -3.6 min | 0.0% |
| 9E Endeavor Air | 103 | 2% | 91.3% | -11.1 min | 0.0% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 62 | 1% | 88.7% | -7.0 min | 0.0% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 60 | 1% | 85.0% | 7.9 min | 1.7% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 31 | 1% | 61.3% | 20.3 min | 3.2% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 29 | 1% | 62.1% | 22.2 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCI–DEN | Kansas City to Denver | 384 | 79.2% | 5.6 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–ATL | Kansas City to Atlanta | 292 | 91.8% | -7.1 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–LAS | Kansas City to Las Vegas | 208 | 81.7% | 2.2 min | 0.5% |
| MCI–PHX | Kansas City to Phoenix | 208 | 79.3% | 6.0 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–DFW | Kansas City to Dallas/Fort Worth | 204 | 82.8% | 19.9 min | 1.0% |
| MCI–MDW | Kansas City to Chicago | 203 | 82.8% | 5.4 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–ORD | Kansas City to Chicago | 201 | 87.6% | 0.0 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–LGA | Kansas City to New York | 195 | 90.3% | -8.5 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–DAL | Kansas City to Dallas | 178 | 84.8% | 2.0 min | 1.1% |
| MCI–DCA | Kansas City to Washington | 168 | 87.5% | -5.6 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–MSP | Kansas City to Minneapolis | 163 | 82.8% | -0.7 min | 0.6% |
| MCI–LAX | Kansas City to Los Angeles | 148 | 83.8% | -1.5 min | 0.7% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left MCI on time in October 2023?
82.8% of 4,323 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
October 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.
Provenance
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MCI · methodology · corrections.