Flight Status & Tracker

SWA1278

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · MCO → HOU · Last tracked Oct 10, 2026

SWA1278 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Orlando International Airport (KMCO) and William P Hobby Airport (KHOU). SkyMeter last tracked SWA1278 on October 10, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 45m. SkyMeter has observed 76 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
76
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 45m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/10/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
14 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
1.3%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMCO → KHOU
19
avg 2h 9m · Orlando → William P Hobby
KDAL → KBNA
18
avg 1h 38m · Dallas Love Field → Nashville
KDAL → KATL
16
avg 1h 49m · Dallas Love Field → Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta
KSNA → KSMF
5
avg 1h 14m · John Wayne Airport-Orange County → Sacramento
KCMH → KTPA
5
avg 2h 0m · John Glenn Columbus → Tampa
KCMH → KHOU
3
avg 2h 14m · John Glenn Columbus → William P Hobby
KMCO → KAXH
1
avg 2h 1m · Orlando → Houston Southwest
KCMH → KBNA
1
avg 1h 5m · John Glenn Columbus → Nashville
KDAL → KELP
1
avg 1h 23m · Dallas Love Field → El Paso
KMDW → KCMH
1
avg 46m · Chicago Midway → John Glenn Columbus

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
35
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
29
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
11

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
1
Unstable approach
0
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 SWA1278

30
N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/10/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
45m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
2h 33m
No alerts
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N8696EBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/9/2026
2h 18m
↻ Go-around
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N8920QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8822QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N8512UBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/6/2026
1h 59m
No alerts
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N7724ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
2h 1m
No alerts
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N8540VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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N8867QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/2/2026
1h 52m
No alerts
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N8511KBOEING Boeing 737-800
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9/30/2026
1h 35m
No alerts
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N8546VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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9/29/2026
1h 43m
No alerts
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/28/2026
2h 36m
No alerts
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N498WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/27/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N929WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/24/2026
2h 13m
No alerts
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N8982SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/23/2026
1h 58m
No alerts
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N8752QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/22/2026
1h 47m
No alerts
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N7721EBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/21/2026
1h 58m
No alerts
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N941WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/20/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N902WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/18/2026
2h 3m
No alerts
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N951WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/17/2026
2h 4m
No alerts
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N8825QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/16/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N8697CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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9/15/2026
1h 42m
No alerts
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N294WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/14/2026
2h 0m
No alerts
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N274WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/11/2026
2h 34m
No alerts
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N288WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/10/2026
2h 4m
No alerts
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N8853QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/8/2026
1h 42m
No alerts
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N287WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/4/2026
1h 58m
No alerts
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N956WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/3/2026
2h 6m
No alerts
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N9019RBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/2/2026
2h 17m
No alerts
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