Kansas City to Washington nonstop
Yes: United and Republic fly direct from Kansas City (MCI) to Washington (IAD) about 2 times a day, in the summer season only.
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Kansas City to Washington in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 926 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 25 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Not flying a year earlier; flights began in May 2026 and ran every month since, up to 14 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: no regular flights
- Oct 2025: no regular flights
- Nov 2025: no regular flights
- Dec 2025: no regular flights
- Jan 2026: no regular flights
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: no regular flights
- Apr 2026: no regular flights
- May 2026: 5 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 13 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 13 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 53%, Republic 47% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 432 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $400 one way, median $275. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 676 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 526 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 288 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 432 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $250 to $275 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Washington to Kansas City nonstop.
Also nonstop from Kansas City (MCI)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 13 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 12 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 9 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a day
- Chicago (MDW) about 6 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 6 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 5 times a day
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