Carrier route record
OOMCI→AUS
SkyWest Airlines · Kansas City to Austin
- Flights
- 154
- 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 MCI to AUS 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 2.4 hours. That rests on 154 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MCI to AUS record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 154 completed flights
Avg delay
141 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.0%
Every carrier on MCI to AUS, 1,050 flights
These figures cover 154 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 MCI to AUS
SkyWest flew 154 of the 1,050 flights on MCI to AUS, about 15% of it. Its 85.7% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.7% to Southwest at 80.2%.
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 | 154 | 85.7% | 141 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 896 | 80.2% | 55 min | 0.45% | B+ |
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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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am85 flights94.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am68 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 94.1% of the time, against 75.0% for the overnight window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 85 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MCI to AUS through the year
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights77.3%
- Jul–Sep 2026110 flights89.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.7% on time across 154 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on MCI to AUS logged 44 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 85.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MCI to AUS runs when it is late
SkyWest on MCI to AUS often beats the schedule: 94 of 154 completed flights, 61%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on MCI to AUS is late it tends to be very late: 13 of its 22 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 6 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights61.0%
- Within 15 min38 flights24.7%
- 15–29 min late3 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late6 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late6 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 154 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 22 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MCI to AUS
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 July 2026, 14 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2026 | 14 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 8 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 97% of the 3,105 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 97%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 97%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,000 of the 3,105 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,105 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
8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.4 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 83.0% on time across 153 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. 154 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 154 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 85.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 154 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCI to AUS, every carrier
- SkyWest on AUS to MCI, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on MCI to AUS80.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Kansas City International (MCI) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.