Flight Status & Tracker

SWA280

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · BUF → MDW · Last tracked Sep 26, 2026

SWA280 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Buffalo Niagara International Airport (KBUF) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA280 on September 26, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 1h 21m. SkyMeter has observed 139 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
139
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 21m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 9/26/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
21 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.2%
3 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KBUF → KMDW
20
avg 1h 18m · Buffalo Niagara → Chicago Midway
KBWI → KBUF
19
avg 53m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Buffalo Niagara
KBOS → KBWI
16
avg 1h 13m · General Edward Lawrence Logan → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KAUS → KDAL
16
avg 51m · Austin Bergstrom → Dallas Love Field
KMDW → KBNA
15
avg 1h 4m · Chicago Midway → Nashville
KDEN → KMDW
10
avg 2h 11m · Denver → Chicago Midway
KLAX → KMDW
8
avg 3h 47m · Los Angeles → Chicago Midway
KSFO → KLAX
6
avg 1h 27m · San Francisco → Los Angeles
KLAS → KSJC
5
avg 1h 34m · McCarran → Norman Y. Mineta San Jose
KOMA → KMDW
4
avg 1h 2m · Eppley Airfield → Chicago Midway

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
62
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
49
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
28

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
3
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 SWA280

30
N8937QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
9/26/2026
4h 17m
No alerts
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N8937QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/26/2026
1h 30m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/24/2026
1h 18m
No alerts
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N446WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/24/2026
52m
No alerts
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N259WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/24/2026
1h 9m
No alerts
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N8793QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/24/2026
1h 0m
No alerts
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N8898LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/23/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N285WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/21/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N285WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/21/2026
1h 2m
No alerts
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N285WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/21/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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N8949QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/21/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N8854QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/19/2026
4h 8m
No alerts
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N8854QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/19/2026
1h 36m
No alerts
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N255WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/18/2026
1h 18m
No alerts
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N255WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/18/2026
53m
No alerts
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N255WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/18/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8976KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/17/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N8976KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/17/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N8976KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/17/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8763LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/17/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N8831LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/16/2026
58m
No alerts
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N930WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/14/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N930WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/14/2026
50m
No alerts
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N7723EBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/14/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N8972SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/14/2026
1h 5m
No alerts
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N8999QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/12/2026
3h 34m
No alerts
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N8999QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/12/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N964WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/11/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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N964WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/11/2026
1h 1m
No alerts
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N964WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/11/2026
1h 16m
No alerts
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