Carrier route record
OOLAX→MCI
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Kansas City
- Flights
- 141
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LAX to MCI earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 30 minutes. That rests on 141 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 616 at 89.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's LAX to MCI record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 170 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 140 completed flights
Avg delay
30 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.3%
Every carrier on LAX to MCI, 1,349 flights
These figures cover 141 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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
SkyWest against every carrier on LAX to MCI
SkyWest flew 141 of the 1,349 flights on LAX to MCI, about 10% of it. Its 94.3% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 94.3% to Southwest at 71.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 89.7% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 71.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 560 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 141 | 94.3% | 30 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 616 | 89.7% | 78 min | 0.49% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 32 | 83.9% | 88 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 560 | 71.2% | 54 min | 0.89% | C+ |
The spread between Delta and Southwest is 19 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 19 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 141 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's LAX to MCI record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 94.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on LAX to MCI through the year
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights95.2%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights92.9%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 94.3% on time across 141 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on LAX to MCI logged 85 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 56 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 94.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LAX to MCI runs when it is late
SkyWest on LAX to MCI often beats the schedule: 62 of 140 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 5 of the 8 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 1 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early62 flights44.3%
- Within 15 min70 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late5 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late2 flights1.4%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 140 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 140 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LAX to MCI
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 April 2026, 1 hour 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2026 | 1 hour 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 July 2026 | 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 June 2026 | 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 July 2026 | 19 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 241 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%National Airspace System
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 241 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 241 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 145 of the 241 delay minutes reported here.
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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.7% 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 1,363 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 94.3% on time across 141 flights, within half a point 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. 141 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 LAX to MCI
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 141 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 94.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 140 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to MCI, every carrier
- SkyWest on MCI to LAX, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to MCI89.7%
- Southwest Airlines on LAX to MCI71.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Kansas City International (MCI) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.