SWA188 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 2h 42m. SkyMeter has observed 150 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
150
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
2h 42m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 08/19/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
33 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.7%
1 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMDW → KLAX
40
avg 3h 55m · Chicago Midway → Los Angeles
KFLL → KMDW
10
avg 3h 5m · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood → Chicago Midway
KPHL → KMDW
8
avg 1h 39m · Philadelphia → Chicago Midway
KBWI → KSDF
7
avg 1h 36m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Louisville Muhammad Ali
KCHS → KMDW
7
avg 1h 46m · Charleston Air Force Base-International → Chicago Midway
KSDF → KLAS
6
avg 3h 40m · Louisville Muhammad Ali → McCarran
KDAL → KDCA
5
avg 2h 39m · Dallas Love Field → Ronald Reagan Washington National
KMDW → KPHX
5
avg 3h 16m · Chicago Midway → Phoenix Sky Harbor
KRNO → KLAS
4
avg 1h 21m · Reno Tahoe → McCarran
KPHX → KLAX
4
avg 1h 8m · Phoenix Sky Harbor → Los Angeles

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
159
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
37
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
24

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 SWA188

30
N8862QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/19/2026
1h 3m
No alerts
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N8862QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/19/2026
2h 17m
No alerts
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N8862QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/19/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N8862QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/19/2026
6h 18m
No alerts
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N8896LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/18/2026
1h 12m
No alerts
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N8896LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/18/2026
3h 13m
No alerts
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N8896LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/18/2026
1h 41m
No alerts
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N8675ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
2h 28m
No alerts
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N8675ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
1h 43m
No alerts
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N8675ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
18m
No alerts
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N8924QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/16/2026
2h 50m
No alerts
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N8501VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/15/2026
1h 43m
No alerts
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N9011HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
2h 38m
No alerts
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N9011HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
1h 46m
No alerts
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N8817LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
2h 34m
No alerts
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N8817LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
1h 35m
No alerts
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N8879QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/12/2026
54m
No alerts
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N8879QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/12/2026
3h 29m
No alerts
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N8879QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/12/2026
1h 57m
No alerts
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N1811UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/11/2026
1h 14m
No alerts
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N1811UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/11/2026
3h 12m
No alerts
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N1811UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/11/2026
1h 55m
No alerts
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N8519RBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/10/2026
1h 54m
No alerts
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N8519RBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/10/2026
1h 55m
No alerts
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N8897KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/09/2026
2h 10m
No alerts
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N8922QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/08/2026
1h 47m
No alerts
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N8971LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/07/2026
2h 52m
△ Low approach-stability score
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N8971LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/07/2026
1h 54m
No alerts
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N8971LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/07/2026
15m
No alerts
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N8867QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/06/2026
2h 44m
No alerts
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