Flight Status & Tracker

SWA597

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · BNA → MDW · Last tracked Oct 19, 2026

SWA597 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Nashville International Airport (KBNA) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA597 on October 18, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 45m. SkyMeter has observed 103 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
103
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 45m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/28/2025 → 10/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
16 / 4
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
1.0%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KBNA → KMDW
21
avg 1h 8m · Nashville → Chicago Midway
KABQ → KDAL
19
avg 1h 46m · Albuquerque International Sunport → Dallas Love Field
KDAL → KDCA
16
avg 2h 44m · Dallas Love Field → Ronald Reagan Washington National
KBNA → KMSY
12
avg 1h 9m · Nashville → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
KDAL → KTYS
7
avg 1h 46m · Dallas Love Field → McGhee Tyson
KBOS → KDAL
7
avg 3h 47m · General Edward Lawrence Logan → Dallas Love Field
KMCO → KSRQ
2
avg 39m · Orlando → Sarasota Bradenton
4MA8 → KBOS
1
avg 5m · Pg Heliport → General Edward Lawrence Logan
KBWI → KBOS
1
avg 1h 27m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → General Edward Lawrence Logan
KRIC → KDCA
1
avg 1h 12m · Richmond → Ronald Reagan Washington National

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

4
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
47
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
40
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
25
BE35 BEECH Beech Bonanza 35
1

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 SWA597

30
N8800LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/19/2026
8m
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N8800LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/18/2026
1h 26m
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N931WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/18/2026
40m
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N8834LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/17/2026
1h 38m
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N8868LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/16/2026
1h 47m
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N8868LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/16/2026
1h 54m
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N8868LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/16/2026
3h 42m
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N8728QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/13/2026
3h 32m
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N8934QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
3h 16m
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N8934QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
34m
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N8934QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
3h 51m
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
1h 56m
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
1h 39m
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
3h 35m
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N8830QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
2h 26m
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N8830QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
1h 3m
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N8830QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
3h 30m
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N8864HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
4h 9m
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N8864HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
5m
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N8864HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
1h 2m
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N463WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
38m
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N8645ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
2h 40m
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N8645ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
1h 28m
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N8645ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
4h 9m
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N8668ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/2/2026
36m
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N7713ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/30/2026
2h 39m
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N7713ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/30/2026
1h 33m
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N7827ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/29/2026
2h 53m
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N7827ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/29/2026
1h 49m
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N8952QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/28/2026
1h 6m
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