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Route Reliability

Kansas City → Detroit

MCI–DTW · 629 miles · Kansas City International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

89
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
88%
Arrive within 15 minutes
2 min early
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
1,365
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Delta Air Lines88% on time · 1,342 flights
  • Spirit Airlines96% on time · 22 flights
  • American Airlines100% on time · 1 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MCI–DTW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 82% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MCI–DTW flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Saturdays. On Sundays: 84%.

Ticking up lately.

MCI–DTW flights arrived on time 90% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon88%(197 flights)
  • Tue88%(196 flights)
  • Wed86%(197 flights)
  • Thu86%(204 flights)
  • Fri91%(194 flights)
  • Sat93%(148 flights)
  • Sun84%(206 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM—(1 flights)
  • 6–9 AM94%(357 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(366 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(265 flights)
  • 3–6 PM82%(345 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(8 flights)
On-time trend by month
94%
May

Jun 83% → May 94% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202583%122
July 202587%124
August 202590%116
September 202590%106
October 202592%117
November 202587%106
December 202577%107
January 202687%98
February 202689%104
March 202690%115
April 202688%114
May 202694%113

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Based on 1,365 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.