Flight Status & Tracker

SWA1781

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · DTW → MDW · Last tracked Oct 22, 2026

SWA1781 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA1781 on October 22, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-800. Typical block time is 1h 18m. SkyMeter has observed 37 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
37
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 18m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/22/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
13 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

9
KDTW → KMDW
8
avg 54m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Chicago Midway
KDEN → KICT
7
avg 1h 10m · Denver → Wichita Eisenhower National
KOAK → KONT
6
avg 1h 41m · Metropolitan Oakland → Ontario
KDTW → KBNA
2
avg 1h 33m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Nashville
KLAS → KDTW
2
avg 3h 50m · McCarran → Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County
KMCO → KJAN
1
avg 1h 29m · Orlando → Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers
KJAN → KBNA
1
avg 55m · Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers → Nashville
KMCO → KBNA
1
avg 3h 27m · Orlando → Nashville
W87 → KBNA
1
avg 1h 5m · Wickenheiser → Nashville

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
21
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
10
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
10

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
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 SWA1781

30
N8549ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/22/2026
1h 5m
No alerts
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N1802UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/16/2026
1h 5m
No alerts
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N8996QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/15/2026
42m
No alerts
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N8533SBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/13/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8323CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/10/2026
55m
No alerts
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N8323CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/10/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N8647ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/10/2026
1h 0m
No alerts
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N8957QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/8/2026
53m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/8/2026
28m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/8/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/8/2026
30m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/7/2026
3h 44m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/7/2026
44m
No alerts
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N8580ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/7/2026
1h 11m
No alerts
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N8580ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/7/2026
50m
No alerts
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N8580ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/6/2026
3h 55m
No alerts
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N8580ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/6/2026
11m
No alerts
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N8581ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/6/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N8681MBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/3/2026
46m
No alerts
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N8681MBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/3/2026
3h 27m
↘ Diverted (inferred)
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N8681MBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N8535SBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N8841LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/2/2026
1h 36m
No alerts
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N9022WBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/28/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N8734QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/21/2026
1h 26m
No alerts
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N8780QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/14/2026
2h 3m
No alerts
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N8779QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/31/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N1804UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/24/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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N8522PBOEING Boeing 737-800
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8/17/2026
1h 31m
No alerts
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