OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Milwaukee to Kansas City

436 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MKE–MCI arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.6%of scheduled flights

based on 161 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights161

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft71%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly MKE → MCI

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 85% to 88% on time.

  • Middays88% on time · p90 20 min · 507 flights
  • Mornings88% on time · p90 20 min · 177 flights · limited
  • Afternoons85% on time · p90 20 min · 230 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 81% to 93% on time.

  • Wednesdays93% on time · p90 5 min · 132 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays91% on time · p90 10 min · 131 flights · limited
  • Fridays90% on time · p90 10 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Mondays88% on time · p90 20 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 35 min · 169 flights · limited
  • Thursdays81% on time · p90 25 min · 153 flights · limited
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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.