Flights Kansas City → Baltimore
MCI → BWI
Route overview
This flight route connects Kansas City with Baltimore, operating a Boeing 737-300 aircraft. With an on-time performance rate of 81%, the flights experience an average delay of 7 minutes and have completed a total of 178 trips. The destination airport in Baltimore, which opened in 1947, handles over 22,804,744 passengers annually, making it one of the busiest airports on this route.
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 Kansas City (MCI) → Baltimore (BWI) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 228 flights monitored in recent months, 80% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 8 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.07%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Baltimore the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Baltimore: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Kansas City (MCI) to Baltimore (BWI) heads east for about 1,552 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 22m.
Departures from Kansas City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 47% of MCI-BWI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Baltimore it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 228 tracked MCI-BWI flights, 80% left on time with an average delay of 8 min and a 3.1% 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 MCI-BWI
On the Kansas City (MCI) -> Baltimore (BWI) route, on-time performance is 80% with an average delay of 8 minutes, based on 228 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Kansas City-Baltimore is 3.07% across 228 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.
