Flights Chicago → Kansas City
MDW → MCI
Route overview
The flight route from Chicago to Kansas City has a 79% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 9.9 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 481 flights on this route, serving the busy Kansas City International Airport, which opened in 1956 and currently handles nearly nine million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Chicago (MDW) → Kansas City (MCI) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 643 flights monitored in recent months, 79% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 4.98%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 22.9/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Chicago the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Kansas City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Chicago (MDW) to Kansas City (MCI) heads south-west for about 650 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 14m.
Departures from Chicago on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 37% of MDW-MCI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Chicago the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Kansas City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 643 tracked MDW-MCI flights, 79% left on time with an average delay of 10 min and a 5.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about MDW-MCI
On the Chicago (MDW) -> Kansas City (MCI) route, on-time performance is 79% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 643 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Chicago-Kansas City is 4.98% across 643 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
