Flights Oakland → Kansas City
OAK → MCI
Route overview
The flight route connects Oakland, which has a long-standing airport opened since 1927, with Kansas City, whose airport, established in 1956, currently serves over 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 Oakland (OAK) → Kansas City (MCI) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 28 flights monitored in recent months, 75% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 9.7/100 (low), 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 Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes.
Heading to Kansas City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Oakland (OAK) to Kansas City (MCI) heads east for about 2,391 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 25m.
Departures from Oakland on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 96% of OAK-MCI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Kansas City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 28 tracked OAK-MCI flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 0.0% 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 OAK-MCI
On the Oakland (OAK) -> Kansas City (MCI) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 28 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Oakland-Kansas City is 0.00% across 28 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.
