Flights Kansas City → Denver
MCI → DEN
Route overview
The flight route from Kansas City to Denver operates with an 80% on-time performance rate, with the average delay amounting to 12.7 minutes. Over a year, this route sees nearly ninety-seven dozen flights using various aircraft models such as Airbus A320s and Boeing 737 series planes. The destination airport in Denver, which opened in 1989, is one of the busiest airports in the United States with over eighty-two 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 Kansas City (MCI) → Denver (DEN) route is operated by Frontier Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines. Across 1330 flights monitored in recent months, 81% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.88%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Denver 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 Denver: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Kansas City (MCI) to Denver (DEN) heads west for about 855 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 29m.
Departures from Kansas City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 38% of MCI-DEN flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Denver it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 1,330 tracked MCI-DEN flights, 81% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 1.9% 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 MCI-DEN
On the Kansas City (MCI) -> Denver (DEN) route, on-time performance is 81% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 1330 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Kansas City-Denver is 1.88% across 1330 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.
