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Kansas City International Airport (MCI) departure delays

Name: Kansas City International Airport (MCI) departure delays
Creator: FlightLabs

Of 2,894 sampled departures, 48.9% left 15 minutes or more behind schedule. Average lateness was 29.0 minutes. Sample window: Jan 16, 2026 to May 7, 2026.

These are historical aggregates, not live status. A departure is late at 15 minutes past schedule.

When departures are on time

Best hour to depart: 21:00–21:59, 24.1% late.
Best day of week: Tuesday, 41.8% late.

Airlines with the most late departures

Airline	Flights sampled	Late	Average lateness
Frontier Airlines, Inc. (F9)	46	67.4%	47.8 min
Southwest Airlines Co. (WN)	1,225	60.2%	32.1 min
Spirit Airlines (NK)	42	54.8%	30.7 min
American Airlines (AA)	256	52.0%	40.7 min
United Airlines (UA)	311	50.2%	33.6 min

Routes from MCI

MCI to PHX — 88 flights per week
MCI to DEN — 87 flights per week
MCI to ORD — 86 flights per week

The departures that are late right now

48.9% of this MCI sample left 15 minutes late or more. GET /flight_delays returns the ones that are late at this moment: airline, flight number, scheduled time, actual time and minutes of delay.

https://www.goflightlabs.com/flight_delays?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&delay=15&type=departures&dep_iata=MCI

Example response

Field names match the live API. This flight only shows the shape. It is not a live result.

{ "success": true, "data": [ { "airline_iata": "AA", "flight_iata": "AA100", "flight_number": "100", "dep_iata": "MCI", "dep_time": "2024-03-15 08:00", "dep_actual": "2024-03-15 08:22", "dep_delayed": 22, "status": "active" } ] }

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