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Route Reliability

Portland → Kansas City

PDXMCI · 1,482 miles · Portland International Airport to Kansas City International Airport

94
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
87%
Arrive within 15 minutes
1 min early
Average arrival delay
0%
Cancelled
371
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Alaska Airlines86% on time · 338 flights
  • Southwest Airlines91% on time · 33 flights

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

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

PDX–MCI flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 70% between 12–3 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

PDX–MCI flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Sundays and just 77% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 371 scheduled flights, only 0.0% were cancelled.

Slipping a little lately.

PDX–MCI flights arrived on time 86% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 91% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(52 flights)
  • Tue88%(49 flights)
  • Wed91%(42 flights)
  • Thu86%(51 flights)
  • Fri77%(51 flights)
  • Sat86%(57 flights)
  • Sun93%(68 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM95%(20 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(340 flights)
  • 12–3 PM70%(10 flights)
On-time trend by month
87%
May

Jun 90% → May 87% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202590%38
July 202590%39
August 202595%40
September 202579%38
October 202577%31
November 202579%28
December 202588%25
January 202691%23
February 202695%20
March 202685%27
April 202687%30
May 202687%31

Based on 371 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.