SWA498 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 58m. SkyMeter has observed 76 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
76
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 58m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/18/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
13 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
6.6%
5 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMSY → KMDW
19
avg 2h 0m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → Chicago Midway
KHOU → KSTL
14
avg 1h 35m · William P Hobby → St Louis Lambert
KAUS → KMIA
12
avg 2h 27m · Austin Bergstrom → Miami
TA92 → KSTL
8
avg 1h 41m · Rowan Heliport → St Louis Lambert
KBNA → KDEN
6
avg 2h 22m · Nashville → Denver
KRDU → KHOU
4
avg 2h 34m · Raleigh Durham → William P Hobby
9TX0 → KSTL
2
avg 1h 38m · Houston Police Command Station Heliport → St Louis Lambert
KHOU → KLAS
1
avg 2h 39m · William P Hobby → McCarran
24TE → KSTL
1
avg 1h 35m · Police Helicopter Patrol Heliport → St Louis Lambert
KPHL → KDEN
1
avg 3h 31m · Philadelphia → Denver

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
32
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
23
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
21

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
1
Unstable approach
4
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 SWA498

30
N8646BBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
07/18/2026
2h 16m
No alerts
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N8912QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/17/2026
1h 51m
No alerts
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N8318FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/16/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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N8920QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/15/2026
2h 50m
No alerts
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N8753QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/14/2026
2h 26m
No alerts
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N8909LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/13/2026
2h 9m
No alerts
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N1804UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/11/2026
2h 25m
No alerts
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N8874QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/10/2026
2h 16m
No alerts
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N8664JBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/09/2026
2h 4m
No alerts
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N8960LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/08/2026
2h 24m
No alerts
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N8775QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/07/2026
2h 20m
No alerts
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N8892SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/06/2026
1h 50m
No alerts
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N8699ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/04/2026
3h 30m
No alerts
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N8684FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/03/2026
1h 55m
No alerts
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N8503ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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07/02/2026
1h 54m
No alerts
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N8955QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/01/2026
2h 30m
No alerts
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N8623FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/30/2026
2h 25m
No alerts
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N8708QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/29/2026
1h 57m
No alerts
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N8524ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/27/2026
2h 24m
No alerts
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N8893LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/26/2026
1h 57m
No alerts
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N8952QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/25/2026
2h 4m
No alerts
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N8646BBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/24/2026
2h 43m
No alerts
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N8646BBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
06/24/2026
14m
No alerts
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N9000DBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/23/2026
2h 27m
No alerts
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N8930SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/22/2026
2h 6m
No alerts
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N9007KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/20/2026
2h 20m
No alerts
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N8814KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/19/2026
1h 54m
No alerts
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
06/18/2026
2h 29m
↻ Go-around
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N8924QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/17/2026
2h 15m
No alerts
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N8537ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/16/2026
2h 18m
No alerts
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