Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City, United States — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from MCI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kansas City.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 632 km | 1h 12m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 647 km | 1h 13m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 650 km | 1h 14m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 742 km | 1h 21m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 790 km | 1h 24m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 855 km | 1h 29m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 1,009 km | 1h 40m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,038 km | 1h 43m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 1,047 km | 1h 43m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,114 km | 1h 48m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MCI
What is the airport code for Kansas City?
Kansas City International Airport uses the IATA code MCI and the ICAO code KMCI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Kansas City International Airport?
It sits at 39.3017° N, 94.7139° W, serving Kansas City in United States, at an elevation of 1,026 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
