Flights Denver → Kansas City
DEN → MCI
Route overview
This flight route connects Denver, with its airport opened in 1989, to Kansas City, whose airport has been operational since 1956 and serves over nine million passengers annually. The route operates with a mix of Airbus A319, Airbus A320, and De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q aircraft, achieving a punctuality rate of 75% with an average delay of 13.1 minutes across the total of 970 flights recorded.
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 Denver (DEN) → Kansas City (MCI) route is operated by Frontier Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines. Across 1325 flights monitored in recent months, 75% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.43%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 25.9/100 (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 Denver the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Kansas City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Denver (DEN) to Kansas City (MCI) heads east for about 855 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 29m.
Departures from Denver on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 40% of DEN-MCI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Denver the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Kansas City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 1,325 tracked DEN-MCI flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 1.4% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
| Frontier Airlines (F9) | 74% | 15 min | 2.2% |
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about DEN-MCI
On the Denver (DEN) -> Kansas City (MCI) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 1325 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Denver-Kansas City is 1.43% across 1325 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 3 airlines: Frontier Airlines, United Airlines, 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.
