MCI Kansas City

How deep the MCI board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MCI. This reads the same 80 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 56of the 80 destinations are flown by one airline
• 43destinations run less than once a day
• 16destinations have four or more departures a day
• 41.2%of the destinations name Southwest Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MCI

37 airlines appear on the MCI board and they do not hold it evenly. Southwest Airlines is on 33 of the 80 destinations, 41.2 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 105.7 of the 171.8 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Delta Air Lines on 12 destinations. 22 of the 37 airlines at MCI appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at MCI: one airline on 41.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.8 per cent spread across 36 airlines. A cancellation inside the Southwest Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 47 destinations Southwest Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the MCI board is daily

Of the 80 destinations, 37 are flown at least once a day and 43 are not, 24 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MCI board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MCI to West Memphis (AWM) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 54.1 of the 171.8 departures a day, 31.5 per cent of the whole board. With 53.8 per cent of the 80 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Albany ALB	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,791	plan this
Alexandria AEX	the United States	Air Wisconsin	1	908	plan this
Beaumont/Port Arthur BPT	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,041	plan this
Birmingham BHM	the United States	Libyan Airlines	1	955	plan this
Bullhead City IFP	the United States	Sun Country Airlines	1	1,812	plan this
Columbia COU	the United States	NGH	1	222	plan this
Columbus CMH	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,014	plan this
Farmingdale FRG	the United States	Allegiant Air	1	1,817	plan this
Fort Myers RSW	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,860	plan this
Hutchinson HUT	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	306	plan this

The ten destinations out of MCI where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 28 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MCI

The desk holds the return direction for 40 of the 80 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into MCI runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Baltimore (BWI) at 4.1 out a day against 3 back.

It runs the other way as well: San Diego (SAN) files 1.6 a day back into MCI against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MCI

MCI keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at MCI, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where MCI turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 15 airport pair pages that start or end at MCI, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Kansas City to Denver (DEN), Kansas City to Chicago (MDW) and Kansas City to Las Vegas (LAS).

Six courier postings name MCI as the airport a courier here flies from: Kansas City, Olathe and Topeka.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MCI already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 80 destinations above.