SWA981 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Nashville International Airport (KBNA) and Kansas City International Airport (KMCI). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 21m. SkyMeter has observed 37 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
37
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 21m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
04/17/2026 → 06/03/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
4 / 2
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

3
KBNA → KMCI
33
avg 1h 20m · Nashville → Kansas City
KBNA → KSTL
1
avg 2h 23m · Nashville → St Louis Lambert
KSTL → KMCI
1
avg 51m · St Louis Lambert → Kansas City

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

2
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
26
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
11

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 SWA981

30
N8842LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
06/03/2026
1h 12m
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N8926QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/02/2026
1h 9m
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N8991SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/01/2026
51m
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N8991SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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06/01/2026
2h 23m
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N8770QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/31/2026
1h 18m
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N8513FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/29/2026
1h 15m
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N8727MBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/28/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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N8861QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/26/2026
1h 16m
No alerts
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N8661ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/25/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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N8849QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/24/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/23/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8992LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/22/2026
1h 13m
No alerts
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N8928QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/21/2026
1h 13m
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N8971LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/18/2026
1h 16m
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N1803UBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/17/2026
1h 15m
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N8945QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/15/2026
1h 17m
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N8797QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/14/2026
1h 26m
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N8940QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/13/2026
1h 14m
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N8962LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/11/2026
1h 34m
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N8632ABOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/10/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N8696EBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/08/2026
30m
No alerts
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N8613KBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/04/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N8905QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/03/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N8543ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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05/02/2026
1h 24m
No alerts
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N8824QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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05/01/2026
1h 30m
No alerts
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N8685BBOEING Boeing 737-800
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04/30/2026
1h 32m
No alerts
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N8307KBOEING Boeing 737-800
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04/28/2026
1h 35m
No alerts
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N8880GBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/27/2026
1h 22m
No alerts
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N8315CBOEING Boeing 737-800
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04/26/2026
1h 19m
No alerts
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N8935QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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04/25/2026
1h 17m
No alerts
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