Route reliability record
ATL→ICT
Atlanta to Wichita
- Flights
- 1,152
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 782 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,152 ATL to ICT flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly ATL to ICT: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.5% of the time and Wednesday flights 92.7%, against 85.4% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,134 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Delta
85.4% on time across 1,152 flights
These figures cover 1,152 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on ATL to ICT
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,152 | 85.4% | 57 min | 1.39% | A |
Flight by flight
Flights on ATL to ICT
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am344 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm106 flights90.5%
- 2pm–5pm337 flights80.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am365 flights85.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.5% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 80.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter ATL to ICT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On ATL to ICT, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 90.5% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 80.1%, a wide gap of 10.4 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am88.8%
- 11am–2pm90.5%
- 2–5pm80.1%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am85.5%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 14 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 77.9% on time, 14 points below September, the best at 91.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 118 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 78.9%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 9,535 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,535 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 9,535 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,642 of the 9,535 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 782 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 86.7% on time across 1,152 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,152 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 91.9% on time and July 77.9%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,134 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ATL to ICT questions
How often is ATL to ICT delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.6% of the 1,152 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is ATL to ICT compared with the rest of the country?
85.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ATL to ICT?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 90.5% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 80.1%, 10 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on ATL to ICT?
July is the weakest month at 77.9% on time, compared with 91.9% in September. Across the year that is 14 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to ATL — the return legseparate record
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- ATL to LGA, a related route72.3%
- DFW to ICT, a related route76.5%
- ATL to MCO, a related route70.3%
- Delta Air Lines on-time record85.4%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. ATL to ICT and ICT to ATL are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.