OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Kansas City to Boston

1,256 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MCI–BOS arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.2%of scheduled flights

based on 489 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airwaysbest
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel2.0%
    Flights351
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time54%
    Median5 min
    p90125 min
    Cancel2.9%
    Flights138

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline39%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)19%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly MCI → BOS

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 69% to 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 25 min · 598 flights
  • Afternoons80% on time · p90 45 min · 229 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 45 min · 629 flights
  • Evenings69% on time · p90 80 min · 659 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 81% on time.

  • Wednesdays81% on time · p90 30 min · 312 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 50 min · 314 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 230 flights
  • Thursdays77% on time · p90 60 min · 315 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 55 min · 313 flights
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 75 min · 318 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 50 min · 313 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.