SWA2972 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) and William P Hobby Airport (KHOU). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 19m. SkyMeter has observed 39 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
39
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 19m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 8/12/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
7 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.6%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
KMSY → KHOU
17
avg 58m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → William P Hobby
KRDU → KBNA
8
avg 1h 16m · Raleigh Durham → Nashville
KDCA → KMSY
6
avg 2h 32m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
KSJC → KLAS
4
avg 1h 43m · Norman Y. Mineta San Jose → McCarran

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
24
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
8
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
7

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 SWA2972

30
N8817LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/12/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N8813QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/11/2026
1h 41m
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N8734QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/8/2026
1h 24m
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N8710MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/5/2026
7m
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N8710MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/5/2026
1h 41m
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N8745KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/4/2026
14m
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N8745KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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8/4/2026
1h 52m
No alerts
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N900WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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8/1/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N255WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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7/25/2026
1h 21m
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N942WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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7/18/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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7/11/2026
1h 19m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N8668ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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7/4/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N7704BBOEING Boeing 737-700
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6/27/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N277WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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6/20/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N7879ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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6/13/2026
1h 15m
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N7823ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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6/6/2026
1h 14m
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N8631ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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6/3/2026
51m
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N8631ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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6/3/2026
2h 35m
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N8768QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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6/2/2026
54m
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N8768QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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6/2/2026
2h 25m
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N8753QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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6/1/2026
53m
No alerts
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N8954QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/31/2026
54m
No alerts
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N8743KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/29/2026
1h 23m
No alerts
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N8683DBOEING Boeing 737-800
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5/28/2026
56m
No alerts
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N8707PBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/27/2026
50m
No alerts
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N8707PBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/27/2026
2h 36m
No alerts
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N8758LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/26/2026
55m
No alerts
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N8758LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/26/2026
2h 39m
No alerts
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N8785LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/25/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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5/24/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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