Southwest Airlines in November 2023

85.9%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In November 2023, Southwest Airlines (WN) reported 122,501 scheduled domestic flights. 85.9% arrived on time, 0.2% were cancelled and 0.0% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% on time and 0.1% cancelled that month, so the carrier was level with the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 85.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.9%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Southwest Airlines in November 2023.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	WN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Nov 2023
Arrived on time	85.9%	—	75.5%	86.2%
Departed on time	82.7%	—	71.2%	86.0%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	0.9%	0.1%
Average arrival delay	-1.1 min	—	6.8 min	-1.3 min
Scheduled flights a day	4,083	—	3,808	18,793
Scheduled flights	122,501	—	1,389,951	563,777

107 airports and 1,598 routes had WN flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	8,467	81.5%	1.3 min	0.2%
LAS Las Vegas	7,502	83.3%	0.8 min	0.4%
BWI Baltimore	6,210	82.2%	0.5 min	0.1%
MDW Chicago	6,042	86.7%	-2.9 min	0.1%
DAL Dallas	6,024	85.0%	-1.1 min	0.2%
PHX Phoenix	5,327	86.1%	-0.3 min	0.1%
HOU Houston	4,522	87.3%	-1.8 min	0.0%
BNA Nashville	4,203	84.2%	0.5 min	0.0%
MCO Orlando	3,854	84.5%	0.5 min	0.2%
ATL Atlanta	3,425	85.5%	0.0 min	0.1%
STL St. Louis	3,363	86.6%	-0.7 min	0.1%
AUS Austin	3,269	82.9%	1.4 min	0.1%
OAK Oakland	3,215	87.7%	-1.7 min	0.5%
SAN San Diego	2,999	85.7%	-1.1 min	0.8%
SJC San Jose	2,593	87.4%	-1.0 min	0.5%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of WN flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	37.0%	42.5%	259,181
Late-arriving aircraft	48.0%	37.3%	336,021
National Aviation System	14.1%	16.2%	98,936
Extreme weather	0.5%	3.7%	3,575
Security	0.4%	0.3%	3,020

700,733 delay minutes on 17,007 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Southwest Airlines flights were on time in November 2023?

85.9% of 122,501 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Southwest Airlines · methodology · corrections.