SWA496 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (KBHM). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 1h 41m. SkyMeter has observed 146 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
146
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 41m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
25 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.1%
3 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMDW → KBHM
32
avg 1h 19m · Chicago Midway → Birmingham-Shuttlesworth
KHOU → KBWI
22
avg 2h 33m · William P Hobby → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KBHM → KDAL
20
avg 1h 28m · Birmingham-Shuttlesworth → Dallas Love Field
KBUR → KLAS
11
avg 47m · Bob Hope → McCarran
KLAS → KMDW
11
avg 3h 36m · McCarran → Chicago Midway
TA92 → KBWI
9
avg 2h 37m · Rowan Heliport → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KBHM → KMCO
6
avg 1h 19m · Birmingham-Shuttlesworth → Orlando
KMCI → KBNA
4
avg 1h 11m · Kansas City → Nashville
AL49 → KDAL
2
avg 1h 22m · Carraway Medical Center Heliport → Dallas Love Field
AL50 → KDAL
1
avg 1h 25m · Baptist Medical Center-Princeton Heliport → Dallas Love Field

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
123
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
30
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
21

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 SWA496

30
N7835ABOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/19/2026
59m
No alerts
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N8605EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/18/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N443WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/17/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N443WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/17/2026
1h 20m
No alerts
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N214WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/17/2026
1h 11m
No alerts
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N214WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/16/2026
1h 33m
No alerts
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N214WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/16/2026
22m
No alerts
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N214WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/16/2026
1h 20m
No alerts
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N920WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/15/2026
1h 11m
No alerts
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N920WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/15/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/15/2026
3h 26m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/15/2026
9m
No alerts
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N253WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/15/2026
47m
No alerts
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/14/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/14/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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N431WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/14/2026
4h 4m
No alerts
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N431WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/14/2026
48m
No alerts
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N7861JBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/13/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N7861JBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/13/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N961WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/13/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N961WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/12/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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N8558ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
07/11/2026
1h 10m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N919WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/10/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N919WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/10/2026
1h 16m
No alerts
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N269WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/09/2026
1h 30m
No alerts
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N269WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
07/09/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N960WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/09/2026
34m
No alerts
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N960WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/09/2026
1h 51m
No alerts
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N960WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/08/2026
1h 16m
No alerts
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N942WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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07/08/2026
4h 0m
No alerts
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