Flight Status & Tracker

SWA561

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · MDW → MSY · Last tracked Oct 18, 2026

SWA561 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY). SkyMeter last tracked SWA561 on October 18, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 2h 8m. SkyMeter has observed 81 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
81
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
2h 8m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/18/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
13 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMDW → KMSY
22
avg 1h 48m · Chicago Midway → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
KLGA → KDEN
19
avg 4h 4m · La Guardia → Denver
KCVG → KMDW
7
avg 1h 12m · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky → Chicago Midway
KHOU → KMIA
6
avg 2h 1m · William P Hobby → Miami
KMSP → KBWI
3
avg 2h 23m · Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KLAX → KOAK
2
avg 1h 2m · Los Angeles → Metropolitan Oakland
KBWI → KSAV
2
avg 1h 29m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Savannah Hilton Head
KDAL → KPHX
2
avg 2h 13m · Dallas Love Field → Phoenix Sky Harbor
KFME → KSAV
1
avg 1h 9m · Tipton → Savannah Hilton Head
05LL → KMSY
1
avg 2h 0m · Midwest Heliport → Louis Armstrong New Orleans

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
44
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
30
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
10

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
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 SWA561

30
N8533SBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/18/2026
1h 3m
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N8927QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/16/2026
2h 5m
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N8510EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/15/2026
1h 9m
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N1807UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/13/2026
2h 11m
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N1807UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/13/2026
30m
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N8800LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
2h 13m
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N8933QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
1h 54m
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N9015RBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
2h 12m
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N8761LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
55m
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N8761LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
1h 22m
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N8761LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
27m
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N8761LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
2h 17m
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N8761LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
17m
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N8982SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
1h 35m
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N8982SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
2h 41m
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N8821SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
1h 53m
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N8731JBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/4/2026
1h 1m
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N8619FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
2h 14m
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N8678EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
2h 3m
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N8981QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/2/2026
1h 58m
No alerts
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N499WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/30/2026
1h 44m
No alerts
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N480WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/29/2026
1h 41m
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N8828LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/28/2026
3h 57m
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N8845LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/24/2026
4h 22m
No alerts
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N456WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/23/2026
1h 46m
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N941WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/22/2026
1h 54m
No alerts
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N8765QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/21/2026
3h 49m
No alerts
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N215WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/19/2026
1h 48m
No alerts
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N218WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/19/2026
2h 9m
No alerts
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N8685BBOEING Boeing 737-800
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9/18/2026
3h 42m
No alerts
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