SWA261 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Austin Bergstrom International Airport (KAUS) and Nashville International Airport (KBNA). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 1h 49m. SkyMeter has observed 84 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
84
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 49m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
12 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
4.8%
4 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

8
KAUS → KBNA
21
avg 1h 55m · Austin Bergstrom → Nashville
KBOS → KBWI
10
avg 1h 10m · General Edward Lawrence Logan → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KSTL → KRDU
6
avg 1h 33m · St Louis Lambert → Raleigh Durham
KMCO → KSTL
6
avg 2h 11m · Orlando → St Louis Lambert
KLAS → KOAK
6
avg 1h 47m · McCarran → Metropolitan Oakland
KSTL → KSFO
6
avg 4h 5m · St Louis Lambert → San Francisco
KAUS → KMQY
4
avg 1h 52m · Austin Bergstrom → Smyrna
KDEN → KAUS
1
avg 1h 45m · Denver → Austin Bergstrom

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
74
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
30
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
20

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
4
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 SWA261

30
N8809LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
07/19/2026
22m
No alerts
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N8809LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/19/2026
30m
No alerts
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N8935QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
07/18/2026
1h 37m
No alerts
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N208WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/18/2026
1h 2m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N208WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/17/2026
1h 56m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N208WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/17/2026
53m
No alerts
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N246LVBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/17/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N246LVBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/16/2026
53m
No alerts
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N246LVBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/16/2026
44m
No alerts
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N246LVBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/16/2026
3h 3m
No alerts
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N8835QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
4h 1m
No alerts
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N8835QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
07/15/2026
44m
No alerts
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N8835QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
44m
No alerts
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N8742MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
07/14/2026
3h 48m
No alerts
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N957WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/14/2026
2h 3m
No alerts
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N957WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/13/2026
10m
No alerts
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N9014WBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/13/2026
2h 0m
No alerts
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N8607MBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/11/2026
1h 32m
No alerts
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N217JCBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/11/2026
1h 3m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N217JCBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/10/2026
41m
No alerts
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N217JCBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/10/2026
1h 44m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N959WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/10/2026
44m
No alerts
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N959WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/09/2026
1h 3m
No alerts
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N959WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/09/2026
1h 48m
No alerts
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N8582ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/08/2026
3h 48m
No alerts
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N8951SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
07/07/2026
3h 43m
No alerts
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N465WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/07/2026
29m
No alerts
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N465WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/06/2026
1h 42m
No alerts
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N465WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/06/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N8721JBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/06/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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