Flight Status & Tracker

SWA978

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · HOU → MCI · Last tracked Oct 21, 2026

SWA978 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between William P Hobby Airport (KHOU) and Kansas City International Airport (KMCI). SkyMeter last tracked SWA978 on October 21, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 1h 54m. SkyMeter has observed 68 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
68
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 54m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/29/2025 → 10/21/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
18 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KHOU → KMCI
20
avg 1h 32m · William P Hobby → Kansas City
KPHX → KLAX
13
avg 1h 19m · Phoenix Sky Harbor → Los Angeles
KLAX → KMSY
4
avg 3h 35m · Los Angeles → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
KDCA → KLAS
4
avg 4h 36m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → McCarran
KLGA → KDAL
3
avg 3h 18m · La Guardia → Dallas Love Field
KLAS → KSMF
3
avg 1h 31m · McCarran → Sacramento
KTPA → KMSY
3
avg 1h 37m · Tampa → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
KDAL → KLIT
3
avg 57m · Dallas Love Field → Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field
KLIT → KDEN
2
avg 2h 16m · Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field → Denver
KBWI → KORF
2
avg 48m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Norfolk

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
38
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
26
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
13

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 SWA978

30
N8583ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/21/2026
1h 42m
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N962WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/18/2026
1h 21m
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N962WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/18/2026
29m
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N8581ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/17/2026
2h 3m
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N8581ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/17/2026
1h 14m
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N8581ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/17/2026
3h 29m
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
1h 58m
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
48m
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/10/2026
3h 3m
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N8882QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
1h 36m
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N8880GBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/6/2026
1h 32m
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N912WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
1h 3m
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N912WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
31m
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N8567ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
2h 28m
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N8567ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
48m
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N8567ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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10/3/2026
3h 22m
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N454WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/28/2026
1h 36m
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N949WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/24/2026
1h 28m
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N284WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/21/2026
1h 32m
No alerts
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N8900LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/20/2026
3h 30m
No alerts
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N8900LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/20/2026
1h 7m
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N8821SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/19/2026
1h 17m
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N489WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/18/2026
1h 27m
No alerts
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N206WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/17/2026
1h 28m
No alerts
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N8750QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/17/2026
1h 26m
No alerts
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N258WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/14/2026
1h 26m
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N8682BBOEING Boeing 737-800
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9/12/2026
1h 13m
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N448WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/11/2026
1h 37m
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N495WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/10/2026
1h 37m
No alerts
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N8728QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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9/6/2026
1h 9m
No alerts
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