Route Reliability
Newark → Kansas City
EWR–MCI · 1,092 miles · Newark Liberty International Airport to Kansas City International Airport
- 80%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 5 min
- Average arrival delay
- 2.8%
- Cancelled
- 468
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 80% of the time across 468 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning flights do better here.
EWR–MCI flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 63% between 6–9 PM.
Thursdays have been rough.
EWR–MCI flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Tuesdays and just 74% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.
Ticking up lately.
EWR–MCI flights arrived on time 88% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon75%(71 flights)
- Tue90%(70 flights)
- Wed79%(70 flights)
- Thu74%(65 flights)
- Fri78%(68 flights)
- Sat84%(43 flights)
- Sun82%(66 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM93%(84 flights)
- 12–3 PM90%(126 flights)
- 6–9 PM63%(165 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM86%(78 flights)
Jun 70% → May 93% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 70% | 43 |
| July 2025 | 59% | 51 |
| August 2025 | 70% | 56 |
| September 2025 | 95% | 55 |
| October 2025 | 81% | 57 |
| November 2025 | 78% | 51 |
| December 2025 | 81% | 31 |
| April 2026 | 90% | 48 |
| May 2026 | 93% | 61 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
Based on 468 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.