Carrier route record
OOAUS→MCI
SkyWest Airlines · Austin to Kansas City
- Flights
- 153
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on AUS to MCI lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 153 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's AUS to MCI record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 153 completed flights
Avg delay
134 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.7%
Every carrier on AUS to MCI, 1,048 flights
These figures cover 153 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on AUS to MCI
SkyWest flew 153 of the 1,048 flights on AUS to MCI, about 15% of it. Its 83.0% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 83.0% to Southwest at 74.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 153 | 83.0% | 134 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 895 | 74.5% | 53 min | 0.45% | C+ |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am84 flights94.0%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm68 flights69.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.0% of the time, against 69.1% for the evening window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 84 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on AUS to MCI through the year
- Apr–Jun 202643 flights79.1%
- Jul–Sep 2026110 flights84.5%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 83.0% on time across 153 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on AUS to MCI logged 43 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 110 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on AUS to MCI runs when it is late
SkyWest on AUS to MCI often beats the schedule: 51 of 153 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on AUS to MCI is late it tends to be very late: 15 of its 26 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 7 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early51 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min76 flights49.7%
- 15–29 min late5 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late6 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late7 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 153 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 30 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on AUS to MCI
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 July 2026, 15 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2026 | 15 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 8 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 June 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 July 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 3,490 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,560 of the 3,490 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,490 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 650 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 85.7% on time across 154 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 153 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on AUS to MCI
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 153 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 83.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 153 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to MCI, every carrier
- SkyWest on MCI to AUS, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on AUS to MCI74.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- Kansas City International (MCI) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.