Carrier route record

OOMCI→LAX

SkyWest Airlines · Kansas City to Los Angeles

Flights: 141
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on MCI to LAX 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 an hour. That rests on 141 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 616 at 91.8% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MCI to LAX 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.

On time

94.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 141 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

82.5%

Every carrier on MCI to LAX, 1,337 flights

These figures cover 141 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

SkyWest against every carrier on MCI to LAX

SkyWest flew 141 of the 1,337 flights on MCI to LAX, about 11% of it. Its 94.3% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.5%. 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 69.0%. 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 91.8% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 69.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 548 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on MCI to LAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	141	94.3%	58 min	0.00%	A+
Delta Air Lines	616	91.8%	83 min	0.49%	A+
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	32	81.2%	91 min	0.00%	B+
Southwest Airlines	548	69.0%	51 min	0.55%	C+

The spread between Delta and Southwest is 23 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 23 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 MCI to LAX 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 MCI to LAX through the year

Apr–Jun 202685 flights92.9%
Jul–Sep 202656 flights96.4%

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 MCI to LAX 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 MCI to LAX runs when it is late

SkyWest on MCI to LAX often beats the schedule: 56 of 141 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 8 late arrivals split 3 under half an hour, 1 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.

15+ min early56 flights39.7%
Within 15 min77 flights54.6%
15–29 min late3 flights2.1%
30–59 min late1 flights0.7%
1–2 hours late3 flights2.1%
2+ hours late1 flights0.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 141 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 11 of 141 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 MCI to LAX

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 May 2026, 2 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across May, April and July, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on MCI to LAX in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 May 2026	2 hours 21 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 April 2026	1 hour 27 minutes	Extreme weather
30 April 2026	1 hour 5 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
31 May 2026	1 hour 1 minute	Carrier
27 July 2026	44 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 464 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
35%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
2%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 464 reported delay minutes.

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 464 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.

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 2.8% 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 MCI to LAX

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. 141 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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