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Airport month · March 2024
Kansas City International in March 2024
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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,165 domestic departures from Kansas City International (MCI). 84.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.7% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MCI departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at MCI that month were on time 78.3% of the time (4,165 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 23%.
- On time 84.7%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.6%
- Cancelled 0.6%
- Diverted 0.2%
March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Mar 2024 | Year earlier | MCI, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 84.0% | — | 77.8% | 78.5% |
| Arrived on time | 84.7% | — | 78.7% | 78.3% |
| Cancelled | 0.6% | — | 1.5% | 0.9% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 10.3 min | — | 15.7 min | 15.7 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 139 | — | 135 | 19,726 |
| Scheduled departures | 4,165 | — | 49,298 | 591,767 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 2,171 | 52% | 83.3% | 1.5 min | 0.7% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 515 | 12% | 91.5% | -7.1 min | 0.2% |
| AA American Airlines | 456 | 11% | 79.2% | 8.7 min | 1.1% |
| UA United Airlines | 327 | 8% | 93.3% | -5.3 min | 0.3% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 135 | 3% | 76.3% | 4.3 min | 0.7% |
| 9E Endeavor Air | 134 | 3% | 85.1% | 4.1 min | 0.0% |
| YX Republic Airline | 126 | 3% | 92.9% | -7.6 min | 0.0% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 74 | 2% | 86.5% | -8.6 min | 0.0% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 56 | 1% | 94.6% | -9.9 min | 0.0% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 56 | 1% | 83.9% | -1.1 min | 1.8% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 36 | 1% | 91.7% | -3.4 min | 0.0% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 31 | 1% | 51.6% | 41.4 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCI–DEN | Kansas City to Denver | 362 | 87.8% | -2.6 min | 2.2% |
| MCI–PHX | Kansas City to Phoenix | 281 | 80.8% | 1.0 min | 1.1% |
| MCI–ATL | Kansas City to Atlanta | 267 | 89.1% | -3.0 min | 0.4% |
| MCI–DFW | Kansas City to Dallas/Fort Worth | 192 | 78.6% | 11.9 min | 1.0% |
| MCI–ORD | Kansas City to Chicago | 188 | 90.4% | -3.6 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–LGA | Kansas City to New York | 186 | 84.9% | -0.3 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–MDW | Kansas City to Chicago | 177 | 91.5% | -3.5 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–DAL | Kansas City to Dallas | 175 | 85.7% | -2.3 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–LAS | Kansas City to Las Vegas | 175 | 86.3% | -0.8 min | 0.0% |
| MCI–MCO | Kansas City to Orlando | 163 | 75.5% | 15.5 min | 2.5% |
| MCI–MSP | Kansas City to Minneapolis | 162 | 92.0% | -6.8 min | 0.6% |
| MCI–DCA | Kansas City to Washington | 140 | 76.4% | 16.7 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left MCI on time in March 2024?
84.0% of 4,165 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.