Flight Status & Tracker

SWA2971

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · MSP → MDW · Last tracked Oct 10, 2026

SWA2971 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport (KMSP) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA2971 on October 9, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 1h 32m. SkyMeter has observed 39 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
39
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 32m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/10/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
12 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

8
KMSP → KMDW
14
avg 1h 35m · Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain → Chicago Midway
KRDU → KMCO
5
avg 1h 42m · Raleigh Durham → Orlando
KMDW → KRDU
5
avg 1h 30m · Chicago Midway → Raleigh Durham
KLGB → KSMF
3
avg 1h 13m · Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field) → Sacramento
KOAK → KSAN
2
avg 1h 42m · Metropolitan Oakland → San Diego
KSAT → KMCO
1
avg 2h 30m · San Antonio → Orlando
KSAN → KBNA
1
avg 3h 33m · San Diego → Nashville
US-2044 → KSMF
1
avg 1h 9m · Aero Long Beach 7 Helipad → Sacramento

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
35
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
14
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
10

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
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 SWA2971

30
N969WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
55m
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N969WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
1h 46m
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N969WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
50m
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N969WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/9/2026
1h 34m
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N456WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/9/2026
57m
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N456WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/9/2026
1h 46m
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N456WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/9/2026
48m
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N456WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/8/2026
1h 36m
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N8710MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
4h 30m
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N8737LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
1h 47m
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N8896LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
3h 33m
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N8896LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
1h 37m
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N257WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/6/2026
49m
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N257WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/6/2026
1h 48m
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N257WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/6/2026
58m
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N257WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
1h 27m
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N8940QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
1h 40m
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N8940QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
2h 30m
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N8940QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
49m
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N278WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
39m
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N278WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
1h 34m
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N278WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
54m
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N278WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/2/2026
1h 28m
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N479WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/2/2026
1h 3m
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N479WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/2/2026
1h 37m
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N479WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/2/2026
33m
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N479WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/1/2026
1h 25m
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N229WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/27/2026
22m
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N296WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/20/2026
33m
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N296WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/20/2026
1h 8m
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