Kansas City (MCI) – Phoenix (PHX)
- Distance
- 1,679 km
- 1,043 mi · 907 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h 49 min / 2 h 29 min
- Average gate to gate: MCI → PHX / back
- Time difference
- 1 h / 2 h
- January / July
- CO2 per passenger
- 211 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (125 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 618,070
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · +8.2%
- Flights / week
- 95
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 80%
- 777,290 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 5
- WN, AA, MQ
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from MCI
- 253°
- Heading from PHX
- 62°
- Halfway point
- 36.68, -103.69
- Great-circle km
- 1,677 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MCI → PHX
- 2 h 27 min
- In the air PHX → MCI
- 2 h 8 min
- Clocks
- 1 h in January, 2 h in July
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 45 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 43,110 |
| Sep 2025 | 41,040 |
| Oct 2025 | 53,862 |
| Nov 2025 | 54,889 |
| Dec 2025 | 58,102 |
| Jan 2026 | 50,860 |
| Feb 2026 | 51,868 |
| Mar 2026 | 64,664 |
| Apr 2026 | 46,919 |
| May 2026 | 51,666 |
| Jun 2026 | 52,438 |
| Jul 2026 | 48,652 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 351 |
| Sep 2025 | 321 |
| Oct 2025 | 395 |
| Nov 2025 | 446 |
| Dec 2025 | 473 |
| Jan 2026 | 434 |
| Feb 2026 | 404 |
| Mar 2026 | 542 |
| Apr 2026 | 427 |
| May 2026 | 410 |
| Jun 2026 | 370 |
| Jul 2026 | 365 |
Airlines flying MCI–PHX nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 63 | 71% |
| AAAmerican Airlines | 23 | 23% |
| MQEnvoy Air | 4.3 | 2% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 2.1 | 2% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 2.7 | 1% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 1,728 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 1,357 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 686 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 516 flights
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 364 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 159 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-200n · 72 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 42 flights
Also carried: 251 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 77.5%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 15 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.6%
- Flights counted
- 4,946
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 75.5% | 14 min |
| AAAmerican Airlines | 80.5% | 18 min |
| MQEnvoy Air | 85.3% | 8 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 82.7% | 16 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 82.7% | 10 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 36% · aircraft arriving late 49% · air traffic system 12% · weather 2% · security 1%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $298
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $257
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Southwest Airlines
- 67% of passengers · $308
- Lowest-fare airline
- Southwest Airlines
- 67% of passengers · $308
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $255 · Q3 2025 $235 · Q4 2025 $230 · Q1 2026 $298).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $304, likely $269–$346
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 76% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 7.8%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 3% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 1,677 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.