SWA2981 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) and Nashville International Airport (KBNA). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 0h 50m. SkyMeter has observed 72 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
72
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
50m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/18/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
7 / 2
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
1.4%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

5
KMSY → KBNA
34
avg 1h 19m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → Nashville
PHLI → PHNL
24
avg 23m · Lihue → Daniel K Inouye
PHJR → PHNL
8
avg 7m · Kalaeloa → Daniel K Inouye
KMSY → KMQY
2
avg 1h 15m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → Smyrna
PHLI → PHHI
1
avg 27m · Lihue → Wheeler Army Airfield

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

2
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
63
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
8

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 SWA2981

30
N8999QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/18/2026
1h 14m
No alerts
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N8974KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/17/2026
1h 26m
No alerts
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N8892SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/16/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N8825QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
1h 27m
No alerts
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N8502ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/14/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N8676ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/13/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N8525SBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/11/2026
1h 18m
No alerts
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N8972SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/10/2026
1h 38m
No alerts
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N8925QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/09/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8577ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/08/2026
1h 15m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N8609ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/07/2026
1h 23m
No alerts
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N8859QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/06/2026
1h 14m
No alerts
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N8810LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/04/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N8884QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/03/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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N8309CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/02/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N8726HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/01/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8867QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/30/2026
1h 20m
No alerts
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N8854QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/29/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N8926QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/27/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N1776R
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06/26/2026
1h 26m
No alerts
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N8856SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/25/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N8514FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/24/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N8825QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/22/2026
1h 32m
No alerts
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N8922QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/20/2026
1h 18m
No alerts
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N8869LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/19/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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N8822QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/18/2026
1h 40m
No alerts
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N8955QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/17/2026
1h 14m
No alerts
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N8871QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/16/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8655DBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/15/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N1810UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/13/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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