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$59 Find Cheap Flights from Kansas City to Portland

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Cheapest round-trip
$177
Overall average: $379
Alaska Airlines
Tue 3/3Tue 3/10
MCI - PDX • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$59
Typical prices: $172-$219
Frontier
Sat 3/7
MCI - PDX • 1 stop
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Cheap Flights from Kansas City to Portland (MCI-PDX)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Kansas City to Portland that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Kansas City to Portland

Tue, Mar 3 - Tue, Mar 10
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5:16 pm - 7:20 pm
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PDX
4h 04mnonstop
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10:53 am - 4:22 pm
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3h 29mnonstop
$177Alaska Airlines
Tue, Mar 10 - Fri, Mar 13
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5:16 pm - 7:20 pm
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PDX
4h 04mnonstop
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10:53 am - 4:22 pm
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MCI
3h 29mnonstop
$187Alaska Airlines
Wed, Mar 11 - Fri, Mar 13
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7:00 am - 8:58 am
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PDX
27h 58m
1 stop
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12:04 pm - 7:55 pm
PDX
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MCI
5h 51m
1 stop
$194Multiple Airlines
Wed, Apr 15 - Wed, Apr 22
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4:25 pm - 10:00 pm
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PDX
7h 35m
1 stop
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2:20 pm - 10:15 pm
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MCI
5h 55m
1 stop
$197Southwest
Wed, Feb 25 - Wed, Mar 4
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11:25 am - 3:40 pm
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PDX
6h 15m
1 stop
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9:55 am - 8:20 pm
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MCI
8h 25m
2 stops
$202Southwest
Tue, Mar 10 - Mon, Mar 16
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7:08 am - 12:14 pm
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PDX
7h 06m
1 stop
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1:10 pm - 11:56 pm
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MCI
8h 46m
1 stop
$207Delta
Wed, Feb 18 - Wed, Feb 25
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3:25 pm - 10:15 pm
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PDX
8h 50m
1 stop
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6:00 am - 4:30 pm
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MCI
8h 30m
2 stops
$208Southwest
Mon, Mar 9 - Fri, Mar 13
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8:38 pm - 8:58 am
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38h 20m
2 stops
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12:04 pm - 7:55 pm
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MCI
5h 51m
1 stop
$209Frontier
Wed, Mar 11 - Thu, Mar 12
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7:00 am - 8:58 am
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27h 58m
1 stop
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12:04 pm - 7:55 pm
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5h 51m
1 stop
$211Multiple Airlines
Thu, Apr 23 - Wed, Apr 29
Frontier Logo
2:15 pm - 11:03 am
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22h 48m
1 stop
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1:48 pm - 1:30 pm
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21h 42m
1 stop
$212Frontier
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Kansas City to Portland flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Kansas City to Portland to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Kansas City to Portland?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Kansas City to Portland clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Portland on a Thursday and more expensive on a Saturday. On your return trip to Kansas City, you should consider flying back on a Wednesday, and avoid Mondays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Kansas City to Portland?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Kansas City to Portland, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Kansas City to Portland is February, where tickets cost $207 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are May and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $397 and $389 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Kansas City to Portland?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $262, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Kansas City to Portland?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Kansas City to Portland, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Kansas City to Portland, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 4% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 13 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Kansas City to Portland

 
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Low seasonNovember
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Best time to beat the crowds with an average 10% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 17% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Kansas City to Portland

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Kansas City to Portland based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from Kansas City to Portland

  • How do you get to Downtown Portland from PDX Airport?

    There are multiple ways through which you can get to Downtown Portland from the airport. You can either opt for a taxi, choose to rent a car or take the train from the airport to the city center. If you’re looking for convenience over everything, a taxi might be your best option since they are easily available in the arrivals parking lot and can drop you off at any destination in town. On the other hand, the train is ideal if you’re looking for a budget-friendly option. They are available throughout the day in intervals of 15-20min.

  • Does Kansas City International Airport have a hotel?

    The Kansas City Airport Marriot is the only hotel located inside MCI Airport. If you’re flying out of the airport, this is the best place to spend your night as it puts you within touching distance. By staying here, you will not have to worry about finding transport to the airport since they offer a free shuttle. In addition, it takes you less than 5min to get from the hotel to the main terminal, so you could end up saving a lot of time.

  • How do I make my flight to Portland more sustainable?

    While flying is one of the least sustainable ways to get around, there are steps you can take to reduce the impact your flight will have on the environment. You can start by booking a direct flight instead of connecting flights. This is because connecting flights are often longer and therefore burn more fuel. On top of that, you should avoid using plastic drinking bottles, cups and cutlery during your flight. They can’t be reused and therefore end up as waste every time.

  • How far is Kansas City International Airport from Kansas City?

    MCI Airport is about 19 miles away from the city center. If you’re in a hurry and need to get there quickly, taking a taxi is the best option. For starters, you can get them anywhere in town and secondly, since you are most likely to use the I-29N, you won’t have to deal with traffic and are therefore almost guaranteed to be at the airport grounds in less than 25min compared to the bus, which takes an hour at the very least.

  • What is the cheapest flight from Kansas City to Portland?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Kansas City to Portland was $59 for a one-way ticket and $177 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Kansas City and Portland?

    Even though you are not required to have a passport, keep in mind that an official ID is needed to board the airplane.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Kansas City to Portland?

    Kansas City and Portland are both served by 1 main airport. You will leave Kansas City from Kansas City and will be arriving at Portland.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Kansas City to Portland?

    Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Kansas City to Portland flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Kansas City to Portland?

    The Boeing 737-800 Passenger/BBJ2 (winglets) is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Kansas City to Portland flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Kansas City to Portland?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Kansas City and Portland, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Kansas City to Portland?

    You can catch a nonstop flight from Kansas City to Portland on on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Kansas City to Portland, Alaska Airlines or Southwest?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Kansas City to Portland are Alaska Airlines and Southwest. With an average price for the route of $337 and an overall rating of 8.0, Alaska Airlines is the most popular choice. Southwest is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $382 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Kansas City to Portland?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Kansas City to Portland.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Kansas City to Portland?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Portland from Kansas City is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Kansas City to Portland?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Portland with an airline and back to Kansas City with another airline. Booking your flights between Kansas City and PDX can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Kansas City to Portland?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Portland from Kansas City up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Kansas City to Portland

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $153 or less one-way and $187 or less round-trip.
  • If you are leaving your car at the Kansas City International Airport (MCI), there are multiple offsite parking lots that charge up to 60% less compared to the parking lots inside the airport.
  • The pet relief areas at Portland International Airport (PDX) are inside and outside the airport terminals. For arriving travelers, the outside ones are easier to access, and you can find them outside Concourse E and across the street from the Parking Garage.
  • When traveling with an infant, you can find the nursing rooms at Kansas City International Airport post-security near gate 82 Airside. The rooms feature all the necessary amenities, such as electric outlets, sinks and changing tables.
  • If you are traveling with a service animal, they should be on a leash the whole time you’ll be at the airport unless they are using the relief areas inside the airport.
  • Kansas City International Airport has accessibility services to make it easier for anyone with limited mobility. The parking lots have designated handicap parking, the toilets are fitted with a handicap stall, and there are ramps on every curb to allow easy access to the terminals.

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Portland to Kansas City

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Kansas City to Portland

 
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Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 11808 reviews
7.0Entertainment
7.1Food
8.5Crew
8.1Boarding
7.8Comfort
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Flight attendants made this flight wonderful. They made sure everyone had what they needed and anticipated future needs. They made adjustments as needed. It was clear this was an experienced crew.

10.0 ExcellentJoseph, Jan 2026
DFW - PDX
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Flight attendants made this flight wonderful. They made sure everyone had what they needed and anticipated future needs. They made adjustments as needed. It was clear this was an experienced crew.

Very delayed for seemingly no reason. Made me miss an event

we bought Mediterranean boxes for lunch. The salami in mine had gone bad long ago, but my partner had good salami and could eat it. Could I buy assigned seats? I guess that I didn't spend enough, so sat at the back of the plane

the flight attendant was so great and the upgrade to first class was top notch

There was no food or entertainment, thus thus the neutral rating.

The Alaska Airlines app made it very difficult to find my boarding pass. It was very frustrating to use! The flight itself was flawless.

No communication with delayed and canceled flights. Completely in the dark for the whole experience.

You need categories to denote when food and entertainment are not available.

Alaska is generally the airline I fly nearly all the time. I nearly always have wonderful experiences on Alaska and never a complaint. However, this entire flight felt like we were in the cheap seats the entire time and I had even upgraded to a cushier seat. For an over six hour flight (that became 7 hours) there was no online entertainment. I couldn’t connect to Wi-Fi and we were offered one snack and one drink. We were instructed to go to a particular baggage claim and 30 minutes later our bag still hadn’t come out and it turned out it was the wrong carousel announced. So overall, this flight was a series of mishaps really less than mediocre service even though flight attendants were wonderful.

Alaska is a great airline. Unfortunately, our flight was canceled in a really late hour and it caused a lot of hardship in my travel process.

All good except once again bags took an hour at Midway Airport Happens all the time. Ridiculous

Everything went smoothly and we even arrived a little bit early.

Great vacation. Can't wait till next year for another one.

Great flight but super high price. Glad it was a business trip and not personal

On time. Friendly staff. Took to long to pre bord all the specialty groups. Cramped small plane

The seats were comfortable, and the boarding process was pretty smooth.

3 hour delay. Had to change plans and was still delayed.

The staff was very friendly, professional, and courteous. The overall flight was a great experience.

The crew canceled the complementary snack and drink in anticipation of turbulence that never materialized. I was counting on the drink (water) to take the the doses of medication - prescribed for my heart condition - that were due during the flight. Since no snack or meal was served on this flight, I cannot rate the food quality. Otherwise, this flight was excellent.

Departure was delayed more than 1/2 hour while we waited for luggage (only) transfer from another flight/plane. Once approved for takeoff, the flight was excellent.

Timing, quality of service, promptness and courtesy of the staff

It was last minute due to weather - considering - it was amazing! Good smiles, friendly staff and they were making sure we knew what was going on when and where.

delta last minute gave me a boarding pass for a different flight with no confirmation that they were changing it

The service from the flight attendants were of supreme quality. They greeted and treated everyone with a wide smile. This is totally absent nowadays. Kudos to them!!!!

Excellent flight and got us around tough weather. Only issue was seat TV did not work and crew tried to reboot.

Very large passenger too space from my own seat. Arm board couldn’t be lowered because of his size. It wads very uncomfortable trip, as the flight was full couldn’t move anywhere having back pain because of the position in which I was the entire flight.

was sitting in the jet bridge for 10 minutes in -20 degree weather waiting for my bag

Outdated equipment in disrepair, wifi inoperable. Broken seats, taped air vents, generally poor condition, the 717 showed its age and lack of upkeep.

My flight out of Baton Rouge to Atlanta was delayed by a half hour. This got us into Atlanta airport 30 minutes late. I ran through the airport to get to my connecting flight. As I approached the boarding gate, I saw the boarding door was still open and a passenger was being checked in. But when I got to the gate, the boarding agent told me they had already given away my seat and there were no empty seats on that flight. So I had to take a later flight. That has never happened to me before. Very frustrating.

Connection through Atlanta was difficult. Mechanical issue on plane caused a two hour delay. New gate was a mile away.

Yall need to integrate your system with Alaska more efficiently. They booted me off the first flight because of a discrepancy on your end.

The crew at Hawaiian Airlines was fantastic. Kind and hard working. The pilots were great with giving us all the updates to make sure we were informed.

Very good. Nice plane and we sat in economy plus - bigger seats, more room. They served a meal and snacks, and the meal was an apple stuffed pancake that was very good! The snack for us was a hummus sandwich - also very good. The flight attendants were helpful and nice. They have plenty of movies and shows to watch. My only negative -- they changed our flights around and did not adjust the layovers, so we ended up with a very long and unnecessary layover in Honolulu.

I liked the Starlink WiFi but didn't like how they said they were the only airline to offer a free meal and it turns out to be just a standalone sandwich and then charge for snacks to go with it. Rather have the free snacks like Southwest, but have the option to purchase a decent meal for a 5+ hour flight.

Flight scheduled to take off at 5.55pm but it did not take off until 7pm due to some food delivery delay.

Unfortunately, I was put into the middle seat in the first row of premium seating. Sounds nice right? No! that is the worst seat in the plane. I wish I was in economy rather than be in that seat! There is no seat back pocket, no tray table, no charger. Nothing! so unless you're row mates are willing to let you share their basic amenities any flyer should have, you are stuck. It was the worst experience ever! And the flight attendant forgot to take my drink order. I felt like the forgotten flyer.

Alaska was fine as usual. My frustration came with accessing boarding passes. On the first trip, I could only get one to print ans took a picture of the second one. On our return trip, the system was down? Friends who booked directly with Alaska had theirs process. I even tried the 800 number and had others try it too. It said something in Spanish and hung up. The agent at the airport succeeded.

Delayed and cancelled flights were hard and very stressful, both ways!

The crew was quite good, they came by often with drinks or to collect trash. But what wasn't nice was the flight was over weigh and several people had to be rebooked. I was questioned whether I should have a seat when I was getting to it. The in-flight entertainment kept buffering and interrupting. And the route took the airplane through high winds which caused us a longer flight

Wasn’t on the flight due to Alaska cancellation…also after all the rerouting, I was going to be on a later flight that left SFO at 7:47pm, which meant an almost 6 hour layover. That same Hawaiian flight was delayed for another 2hours.

In overall it was a good experience, the only down point was that the entertainment screen was working properly.

HORRIBLE, my initial flight was cancelled, they made me pay $200 extra dollars and that got cancelled as well! After 6 cancellations I decided to get a refund because I needed to get home to my babies. Out of $1000+ dollars they offered me only $40 in refund! Totally unacceptable! The flight that they cancelled I was able to fly it on another airline. I had to spend $400 on one way tickets just to get home! I’m still getting the runaround.

First class ticket gets you a choice of chips or nuts. . Just like economy Southwest. Also no screen in the seats. This is first class???!

Seated dude next to me even though lots of empty rows. But main thing was we sat on the tarmac after landing for 30 minutes because of, in the words of the dude who sat next to me, “operational incompetence”. We got changing directions about where to pick up gate checked bags. Pilot and flight attendant were awesome though.

It was a pretty standard flight... until the almost hour and a half spent on the taxi way. I get that the weather has been poor but the delay had nothing to do with the weather and more to do with a plane with several issues tying up the gate. I get that that happens from time to time but this has been EVERY flight I've been on for the past 5 years and I fly 3 to 5 times a year. This isn't just United... it's American, it's Delta. It's an issue with the entire industry. I work for UPS and packages on a cargo plane get better service than people do these days. Anymore I HATE flying.

Flight arrived 30 min early and bag was waiting at the baggage pickup. United Club HNL was one of the nicest in the system

Unfortunately weather delayed our flight waiting for our plane to arrive and due to a little snow time was needed to deice the plane so departure was very delayed and I missed the connecting flight

Very good. Because of the delays with my previous flight, I missed my connection, but I was able to book another flight through the United app easily.

I wish there were outlets to charge my iPhone. The crew was great; we had a female pilot who was great with explaining what was happening and delays,

The flight crew where really good. Better then the crew from BNE to SFO

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