SWA2861 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX) and Kansas City International Airport (KMCI). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 2h 24m. SkyMeter has observed 99 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
99
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
2h 24m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
8 / 3
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
1.0%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

7
35
avg 2h 51m · Los Angeles → Kansas City
33
avg 1h 31m · Metropolitan Oakland → Los Angeles
20
avg 3h 19m · Chicago Midway → Phoenix Sky Harbor
7
avg 2h 12m · Memphis → Denver
1
avg 1h 33m · Metropolitan Oakland → Bob Hope
1
avg 1h 31m · Metropolitan Oakland → Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne
1
avg 1h 45m · Seattle Tacoma → Metropolitan Oakland

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
1
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 SWA2861

30
07/17/2026
1h 34m
No alerts
07/16/2026
1h 38m
No alerts
07/11/2026
1h 34m
No alerts
07/10/2026
1h 42m
No alerts
07/09/2026
2h 11m
No alerts
07/07/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
07/06/2026
1h 37m
No alerts
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