SWA2561 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (KBWI). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 57m. SkyMeter has observed 97 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
97
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 57m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/31/2025 → 07/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
15 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
5.2%
5 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMDW → KBWI
32
avg 1h 28m · Chicago Midway → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KMCI → KLAX
20
avg 3h 9m · Kansas City → Los Angeles
KOKC → KMDW
13
avg 2h 1m · Will Rogers World → Chicago Midway
KMIA → KAUS
9
avg 2h 27m · Miami → Austin Bergstrom
KLAS → KRNO
5
avg 1h 26m · McCarran → Reno Tahoe
KLAX → KOAK
4
avg 1h 14m · Los Angeles → Metropolitan Oakland
KMDW → KFME
2
avg 1h 23m · Chicago Midway → Tipton
KSTL → KMIA
1
avg 2h 18m · St Louis Lambert → Miami
AUS → KAUS
1
avg 6m · Austin Robert Mueller Municipal → Austin Bergstrom
US-1410 → KOAK
1
avg 1h 4m · Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel Helipad → Metropolitan Oakland

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
53
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
50
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
6

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
5
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 SWA2561

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N8632ABOEING Boeing 737-800
→
07/19/2026
1h 38m
No alerts
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N9004HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/16/2026
22m
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N9004HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
2h 23m
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N9004HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
2h 0m
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N8551QBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/14/2026
2h 26m
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N8547VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/13/2026
1h 25m
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N8547VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/13/2026
2h 55m
No alerts
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N8802QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/12/2026
1h 23m
No alerts
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N8963QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/09/2026
12m
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N8963QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/08/2026
2h 32m
No alerts
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N8963QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/08/2026
2h 19m
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N8715QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/08/2026
40m
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N8715QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/07/2026
2h 23m
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N8715QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/07/2026
1h 43m
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N8602FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/06/2026
1h 14m
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N8602FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/06/2026
3h 1m
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N8644CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/04/2026
2h 18m
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N8829QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/04/2026
3h 21m
No alerts
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N8639BBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/03/2026
3h 25m
No alerts
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N8921QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/02/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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N8643ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/30/2026
2h 18m
No alerts
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N8684FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/30/2026
3h 9m
No alerts
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N8677ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/29/2026
1h 5m
No alerts
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N8677ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/29/2026
3h 4m
No alerts
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N8667DBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/28/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N8667DBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/28/2026
13m
No alerts
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N8602FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/27/2026
3h 11m
No alerts
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N8961KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/26/2026
3h 11m
No alerts
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N8629ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/25/2026
1h 3m
No alerts
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N8629ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/24/2026
1h 31m
No alerts
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