Route Reliability
Kansas City → Oakland
MCI–OAK · 1,489 miles · Kansas City International Airport to Oakland International Airport
- 64%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 15 min
- Average arrival delay
- 0.5%
- Cancelled
- 220
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 64% of the time across 220 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
The 3–6 PM departure wins.
MCI–OAK flights departing between 3–6 PM arrived on time 65% of the time, versus 52% between 6–9 PM.
Thursdays have been rough.
MCI–OAK flights arrived on time 77% of the time on Tuesdays and just 43% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.
Slipping a little lately.
MCI–OAK flights arrived on time 59% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 66% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon56%(32 flights)
- Tue77%(31 flights)
- Wed74%(31 flights)
- Thu43%(30 flights)
- Fri63%(30 flights)
- Sat69%(26 flights)
- Sun62%(37 flights)
- 6–9 AM—(8 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM—(1 flights)
- 12–3 PM61%(59 flights)
- 3–6 PM65%(128 flights)
- 6–9 PM52%(21 flights)
Jun 62% → Dec 52% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 62% | 29 |
| July 2025 | 65% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 71% | 34 |
| September 2025 | 64% | 33 |
| October 2025 | 44% | 25 |
| November 2025 | 83% | 29 |
| December 2025 | 52% | 31 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
Based on 220 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.