Flight Status & Tracker

SWA1949

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · MSY → MDW · Last tracked Oct 11, 2026

SWA1949 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA1949 on October 10, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 29m. SkyMeter has observed 98 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
98
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 29m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/11/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
16 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.0%
2 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
21
avg 2h 0m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → Chicago Midway
17
avg 28m · Tucson International Airport / Morris Air National Guard Base → Phoenix Sky Harbor
16
avg 1h 51m · Denver → Tucson International Airport / Morris Air National Guard Base
8
avg 1h 39m · William P Hobby → Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta
6
avg 41m · Gerald R. Ford → Chicago Midway
5
avg 1h 49m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → General Mitchell
5
avg 55m · General Mitchell → St Louis Lambert
2
avg 3h 21m · Denver → Sarasota Bradenton
2
avg 2h 8m · Denver → Los Angeles
1
avg 1h 35m · Police Helicopter Patrol Heliport → Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
2
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 SWA1949

30
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