SWA2861 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (KPHX). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 2h 14m. SkyMeter has observed 70 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
70
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
2h 14m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 08/24/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
10 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

7
KMDW → KPHX
26
avg 3h 20m · Chicago Midway → Phoenix Sky Harbor
KMEM → KDEN
9
avg 2h 10m · Memphis → Denver
KSLC → KSJC
6
avg 1h 51m · Salt Lake City → Norman Y. Mineta San Jose
KOAK → KLAX
6
avg 1h 30m · Metropolitan Oakland → Los Angeles
KLAX → KMCI
6
avg 2h 51m · Los Angeles → Kansas City
KLAS → KRNO
6
avg 1h 19m · McCarran → Reno Tahoe
KBUR → KLAS
3
avg 48m · Bob Hope → McCarran

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
69
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
40
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
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 SWA2861

30
N8738KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
08/24/2026
1h 31m
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N8738KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/23/2026
35m
No alerts
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N7740ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/23/2026
44m
No alerts
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N7740ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/22/2026
34m
No alerts
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N7740ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/22/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N7740ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/22/2026
46m
No alerts
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N8937QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/17/2026
1h 47m
No alerts
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N8866HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/17/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N8866HBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/16/2026
8m
No alerts
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N957WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/16/2026
1h 34m
No alerts
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N243WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/15/2026
50m
No alerts
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N8846QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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N886GKBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
2h 3m
No alerts
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N8860SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/10/2026
1h 48m
No alerts
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N8860SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/10/2026
26m
No alerts
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N8686ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/10/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N937WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/09/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N937WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
08/08/2026
40m
No alerts
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N937WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/08/2026
6m
No alerts
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N937WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/08/2026
49m
No alerts
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N8767MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/07/2026
1h 45m
No alerts
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N8767MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/07/2026
23m
No alerts
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N1776R
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08/06/2026
1h 49m
No alerts
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N1776R
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08/06/2026
9m
No alerts
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N8803LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/04/2026
1h 1m
No alerts
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N8803LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/03/2026
2h 13m
No alerts
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N8803LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/03/2026
3h 19m
No alerts
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N8312CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/02/2026
2h 8m
No alerts
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N8987QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/01/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8987QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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07/31/2026
1h 57m
No alerts
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