Southwest Airlines in July 2024

70.6%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 July 2024, Southwest Airlines (WN) reported 127,642 scheduled domestic flights. 70.6% arrived on time, 0.7% were cancelled and 0.4% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 68.1% on time and 2.9% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 2.5 points above the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 70.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 28.4%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Southwest Airlines in July 2024.

July 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	WN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Jul 2024
Arrived on time	70.6%	—	75.5%	68.1%
Departed on time	67.5%	—	71.2%	68.5%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	0.9%	2.9%
Average arrival delay	12.2 min	—	6.8 min	18.1 min
Scheduled flights a day	4,255	—	3,808	21,154
Scheduled flights	127,642	—	1,389,951	634,613

107 airports and 1,712 routes had WN flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	8,943	69.4%	12.8 min	0.3%
LAS Las Vegas	7,346	65.9%	14.9 min	0.5%
MDW Chicago	7,166	65.3%	15.4 min	1.0%
BWI Baltimore	6,652	56.1%	22.6 min	0.5%
DAL Dallas	6,210	69.7%	12.0 min	0.6%
PHX Phoenix	5,628	70.6%	11.8 min	0.6%
HOU Houston	4,771	63.6%	17.2 min	3.9%
BNA Nashville	4,692	71.0%	11.2 min	0.3%
MCO Orlando	4,073	63.9%	18.3 min	0.7%
STL St. Louis	3,821	68.3%	14.6 min	0.3%
AUS Austin	3,380	67.8%	13.6 min	0.4%
SAN San Diego	3,090	66.4%	14.3 min	0.5%
OAK Oakland	3,079	77.7%	7.1 min	0.4%
ATL Atlanta	2,743	64.1%	20.7 min	0.5%
SMF Sacramento	2,699	78.1%	7.1 min	0.3%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.9%	36.6%	591,746
Late-arriving aircraft	53.0%	42.7%	1,084,224
National Aviation System	14.8%	16.0%	303,596
Extreme weather	2.9%	4.6%	60,000
Security	0.3%	0.1%	5,501

2,045,067 delay minutes on 36,225 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 July 2024?

70.6% of 127,642 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 68.1% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 2023 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 July 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Southwest Airlines · methodology · corrections.