Flight Status & Tracker

SWA859

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

SWA859 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Sacramento International Airport (KSMF). SkyMeter last tracked SWA859 on October 18, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 2h 38m. SkyMeter has observed 107 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
107
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
2h 38m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
15 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
43
avg 4h 3m · Chicago Midway → Sacramento
12
avg 2h 28m · Spokane → Denver
9
avg 2h 3m · Bob Hope → Denver
7
avg 52m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → William P Hobby
6
avg 2h 28m · Denver → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
6
avg 1h 51m · Northwest Florida Beaches → Kansas City
3
avg 1h 1m · Nashville → Destin-Ft Walton Beach
3
avg 2h 5m · Denver → San Antonio
1
avg 5h 14m · Bob Hope → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
1
avg 2h 6m · Denver → Austin Bergstrom

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 SWA859

30
10/9/2026
5h 14m
↘ Diverted (inferred)
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