Flights San Francisco → Kansas City
SFO → MCI
Route overview
The flight route from San Francisco to Kansas City operates with a Canadair Regional Jet 700 and has an on-time performance rate of 74%, with an average delay of 12 minutes. The destination airport, which opened in 1956, serves approximately 9,819,092 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 San Francisco (SFO) → Kansas City (MCI) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 119 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 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 12.3/100 (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 San Francisco the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Kansas City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from San Francisco (SFO) to Kansas City (MCI) heads east for about 2,406 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 26m.
Departures from San Francisco on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 52% of SFO-MCI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing San Francisco the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Kansas City it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 119 tracked SFO-MCI flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 0.0% 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% |
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Frequently asked questions about SFO-MCI
On the San Francisco (SFO) -> Kansas City (MCI) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 119 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on San Francisco-Kansas City is 0.00% across 119 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United 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.
