SWA2972 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY) and William P Hobby Airport (KHOU). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 19m. SkyMeter has observed 27 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
27
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 19m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
04/17/2026 → 06/03/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
3 / 2
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
18.5%
5 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

2
KMSY → KHOU
20
avg 59m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → William P Hobby
KDCA → KMSY
6
avg 2h 32m · Ronald Reagan Washington National → Louis Armstrong New Orleans

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

2
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
22
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
5

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
5
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 27 operations of SWA2972

27
N8631ABOEING Boeing 737-800
→
06/03/2026
51m
No alerts
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N8631ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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06/03/2026
2h 35m
No alerts
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N8768QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/02/2026
54m
No alerts
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N8768QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/02/2026
2h 25m
No alerts
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N8753QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/01/2026
53m
△ Unstable
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N8954QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/31/2026
54m
△ Unstable
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N8743KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/29/2026
1h 23m
No alerts
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N8683DBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/28/2026
56m
No alerts
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N8707PBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/27/2026
50m
No alerts
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N8707PBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/27/2026
2h 36m
No alerts
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N8758LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/26/2026
55m
No alerts
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N8758LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/26/2026
2h 39m
No alerts
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N8785LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/25/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/24/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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N1804UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/21/2026
1h 1m
No alerts
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N8762QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/20/2026
1h 2m
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N8762QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/20/2026
2h 25m
No alerts
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N8738KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/18/2026
52m
No alerts
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N8678EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/17/2026
52m
No alerts
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N1810UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/15/2026
56m
△ Unstable
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N8780QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/14/2026
51m
△ Unstable
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N8774QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/23/2026
1h 0m
△ Unstable
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N8857QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/21/2026
1h 0m
No alerts
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N8857QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/21/2026
2h 30m
No alerts
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N8760LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/20/2026
1h 3m
No alerts
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N8838QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/19/2026
59m
No alerts
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N8653ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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04/17/2026
58m
No alerts
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