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Southwest Airlines ATL to AUS on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Atlanta to Austin · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
83%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.6%
6 flights
Avg arrival delay
10 min
52 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 4
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on ATL to AUS arrived on time 83% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.6% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 65.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 80.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 94.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 75.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 75.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 84.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 91.5% on time, 3.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 89.7% on time, 1.3% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 81.8% on time, 1.1% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 90.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.3% on time, 1.2% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 77.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 76.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)25%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion18%
  • Extreme weather4%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on ATL to AUS

Full ATL to AUS comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

1,036 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 6 cancelled, 1 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.