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Southwest Airlines ATL to STL on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Atlanta to St. Louis · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
79%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
4 flights
Avg arrival delay
13 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 82% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on ATL to STL arrived on time 79% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (64%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 75.9% on time, 1.8% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 81.4% on time, 1.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 87.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 78.4% on time, 1.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 82.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 88.8% on time, 2.2% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 86.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 73.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 82.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 73.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 67.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 69.3% 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 aircraft64%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)26%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion5%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on ATL to STL

1,105 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 4 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.