On-Time Report

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Airport month · November 2023

Kansas City International in November 2023

87.4%departed on time

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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 3,993 domestic departures from Kansas City International (MCI). 87.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.8% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so MCI departures were 1.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCI that month were on time 85.4% of the time (3,992 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 22%.

Every scheduled departure from MCI in November 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureNov 2023Year earlierMCI, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time87.4%—77.8%86.0%
Arrived on time86.8%—78.7%86.2%
Cancelled0.1%—1.5%0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)8.2 min—15.7 min9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day133—13518,793
Scheduled departures3,993—49,298563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines2,08852%87.7%-3.4 min0.1%
DL Delta Air Lines56714%92.1%-9.7 min0.0%
AA American Airlines41910%79.5%13.6 min0.0%
UA United Airlines2867%86.7%0.2 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1183%78.8%7.0 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1183%90.7%-5.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air1133%89.4%-15.1 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines1113%82.0%2.4 min0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines581%84.5%-0.6 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air371%89.2%6.2 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways291%62.1%61.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines251%92.0%-2.7 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MCI–DENKansas City to Denver35786.0%-0.8 min0.3%
MCI–ATLKansas City to Atlanta27094.1%-9.6 min0.0%
MCI–PHXKansas City to Phoenix24087.5%3.6 min0.0%
MCI–MDWKansas City to Chicago19390.2%-1.7 min0.0%
MCI–DFWKansas City to Dallas/Fort Worth18976.2%13.6 min0.0%
MCI–LASKansas City to Las Vegas18989.9%-5.5 min0.0%
MCI–ORDKansas City to Chicago18885.6%0.4 min0.0%
MCI–DALKansas City to Dallas17289.0%-6.0 min0.6%
MCI–LGAKansas City to New York16889.9%-12.0 min0.0%
MCI–DCAKansas City to Washington16584.8%0.8 min0.6%
MCI–MSPKansas City to Minneapolis16090.0%-6.0 min0.0%
MCI–MCOKansas City to Orlando13977.7%4.9 min0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Nov 2023Minutes
Air carrier40.9%42.5%12,180
Late-arriving aircraft34.2%37.3%10,176
National Aviation System22.2%16.2%6,617
Extreme weather1.4%3.7%403
Security1.3%0.3%391
29,767 delay minutes on 522 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left MCI on time in November 2023?

87.4% of 3,993 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.