SWA4978 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Metropolitan Oakland International Airport (KOAK) and Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 28m. SkyMeter has observed 18 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
18
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 28m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
06/05/2025 → 06/29/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
2 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
27.8%
5 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

1
KOAK → KLAX
17
avg 1h 28m · Metropolitan Oakland → Los Angeles

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
7
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
6
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
4

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
5
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 SWA4978

30
N8538VBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
06/29/2026
1h 21m
No alerts
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N9009UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/26/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N8613KBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/25/2026
1h 23m
No alerts
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N216WRBOEING Boeing 737-700
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06/24/2026
1h 18m
No alerts
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N282WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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06/23/2026
1h 14m
No alerts
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N8981QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
06/22/2026
1h 18m
△ Unstable
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N8893LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/19/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N1776R
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06/18/2026
1h 37m
△ Unstable
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N7875ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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06/17/2026
1h 35m
No alerts
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N442WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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06/16/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N8303RBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/15/2026
1h 57m
△ Unstable
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N8605EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/12/2026
1h 31m
No alerts
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N8861QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/11/2026
51m
No alerts
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N955WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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06/10/2026
2h 12m
No alerts
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N915WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
06/09/2026
1h 15m
△ Unstable
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N8810LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/08/2026
1h 44m
△ Unstable
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N8832HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
06/05/2026
1h 20m
No alerts
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N8808QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/04/2026
1h 26m
No alerts
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N8647ABOEING Boeing 737-800
→
03/08/2026
4h 49m
No alerts
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N8924QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/04/2026
3h 35m
No alerts
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N8923QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/03/2026
3h 41m
No alerts
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N8797QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/02/2026
1h 55m
No alerts
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N8758LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/02/2026
3h 33m
No alerts
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N8727MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/01/2026
2h 27m
No alerts
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N8727MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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03/01/2026
3h 32m
No alerts
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N8721JBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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02/27/2026
1h 48m
No alerts
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N8721JBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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02/27/2026
5m
No alerts
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N8965QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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02/27/2026
3h 22m
No alerts
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N8729HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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02/26/2026
2h 0m
No alerts
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N8929SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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02/26/2026
3h 31m
No alerts
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