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Airport Reliability

GCK · Garden City

Garden City, KS (GCK)

82%
Departures within 15 minutes
13 min
Average departure delay
76%
Arrivals within 15 minutes
2.8%
Departures cancelled

Based on 727 departures and 727 arrivals. Data through May 2026.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

Departures from GCK departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 75% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

Departures from GCK arrived on time 87% of the time on Tuesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

Departures from GCK arrived on time 87% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 79% in the three months before that.

When GCK gets messy

On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM88%(286 flights)
  • 6–9 AM75%(65 flights)
  • 12–3 PM85%(85 flights)
  • 3–6 PM75%(267 flights)
On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(101 flights)
  • Tue87%(100 flights)
  • Wed83%(102 flights)
  • Thu87%(100 flights)
  • Fri82%(103 flights)
  • Sat76%(97 flights)
  • Sun71%(100 flights)
On-time trend by month
87%
May

Jun 70% → May 87% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%59
July 202580%59
August 202577%62
September 202590%58
October 202582%61
November 202578%55
December 202581%62
January 202678%58
February 202679%53
March 202686%59
April 202688%57
May 202687%60

Airlines departing GCK

Based on 727 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.