Flights Kansas City → Houston
MCI → HOU
Route overview
The flight route from Kansas City to Houston has an on-time performance rate of 82%, with an average delay of 7.5 minutes per flight. Over the past year, this route saw a total of 257 flights departing from Kansas City International Airport, which opened in 1956, connecting to one of the busiest airports in the United States by passenger traffic, serving nearly 13.9 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) → Houston (HOU) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 346 flights monitored in recent months, 80% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 9 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.16%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Houston 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 Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Kansas City (MCI) to Houston (HOU) heads south for about 1,075 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 46m.
Departures from Kansas City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 37% of MCI-HOU flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Kansas City the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 346 tracked MCI-HOU flights, 80% left on time with an average delay of 9 min and a 1.2% 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-HOU
On the Kansas City (MCI) -> Houston (HOU) route, on-time performance is 80% with an average delay of 9 minutes, based on 346 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Kansas City-Houston is 1.16% across 346 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.
