Carrier route record

OHPHL→MCI

PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Kansas City

Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 35%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on PHL to MCI sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on PHL to MCI runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 47 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.96%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.7%

Every carrier on PHL to MCI, 905 flights

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on PHL to MCI

PSA flew 314 of the 905 flights on PHL to MCI, about 35% of it. Its 72.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.7% to PSA at 72.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to MCI
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	58	87.7%	56 min	1.72%	A
American Airlines	533	74.2%	77 min	0.56%	C+
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	314	72.9%	86 min	7.96%	C−

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am21 flights—
11am–2pm33 flights84.4%
2pm–5pm113 flights75.7%
5pm–8pm81 flights64.8%
8pm–5am66 flights74.1%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.8% on time, against 84.4% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 113 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PHL to MCI through the year

Jul–Sep 202566 flights78.7%
Oct–Dec 202567 flights51.6%
Jan–Mar 2026131 flights79.3%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights77.6%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 72.9% on time across 314 flights.

PSA on PHL to MCI did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 51.6%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 79 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 81.4% on time and Thursday the weakest at 65.9%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 6,737 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
0%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,737 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,737 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 7.96%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,038 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.5% on time across 315 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 314 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 PSA on PHL to MCI

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 288 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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