Flight Status & Tracker

SWA1242

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · HRL → HOU · Last tracked Oct 18, 2026

SWA1242 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Valley International Airport (KHRL) and William P Hobby Airport (KHOU). SkyMeter last tracked SWA1242 on October 18, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 16m. SkyMeter has observed 72 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
72
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 16m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
6/5/2025 → 10/18/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
14 / 5
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.8%
2 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

8
KHRL → KHOU
13
avg 45m · Valley → William P Hobby
KSLC → KLAS
10
avg 1h 29m · Salt Lake City → McCarran
KLAS → KSJC
9
avg 1h 30m · McCarran → Norman Y. Mineta San Jose
KDCA → KOKC
5
avg 2h 57m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → Will Rogers World
KOKC → KHOU
4
avg 1h 20m · Will Rogers World → William P Hobby
KCMH → KBWI
3
avg 1h 2m · John Glenn Columbus → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KABQ → KMCI
1
avg 2h 11m · Albuquerque International Sunport → Kansas City
KDCA → KHOU
1
avg 4h 18m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → William P Hobby

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

5
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
41
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
22
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
12
BE35 BEECH Beech Bonanza 35
2
NAVI NORTH AMERICAN-RYAN North American Navion
1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
1
Unstable approach
1
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of SWA1242

30
N904WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/18/2026
1h 55m
No alerts
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N9016SBEECH Beech Bonanza 35
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10/17/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N7721EBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/16/2026
2h 51m
No alerts
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N268WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/16/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N268WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/16/2026
44m
No alerts
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N268WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/15/2026
3h 3m
No alerts
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N8897KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/10/2026
54m
No alerts
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N958WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
12m
No alerts
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N958WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/10/2026
45m
No alerts
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N958WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/9/2026
2h 38m
No alerts
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N958WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/9/2026
4h 17m
↘ Diverted (inferred)
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N7820LBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/9/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N7820LBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/8/2026
2h 46m
No alerts
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N9010TBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
2h 46m
No alerts
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N8788LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
2h 45m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/6/2026
49m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/6/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/6/2026
22m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/5/2026
3h 10m
No alerts
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N249WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/4/2026
2h 10m
No alerts
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N8649ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
52m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N929WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
40m
No alerts
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N929WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/2/2026
2h 54m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/2/2026
1h 11m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/2/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/2/2026
17m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/1/2026
2h 50m
No alerts
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N9009UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
9/30/2026
40m
No alerts
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N8951SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/29/2026
37m
No alerts
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N8904LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/23/2026
42m
No alerts
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