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Southwest Airlines BOS to STL on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
73%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.0%
9 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
60 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 76% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on BOS to STL arrived on time 73% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 76% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (61%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 66.7% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 76.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 60.0% on time, 1.2% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 62.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 80.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 67.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 86.4% on time, 4.3% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 92.9% on time, 8.7% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 65.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 68.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 69.7% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft61%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)22%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion12%
  • Extreme weather5%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on BOS to STL

935 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 9 cancelled, 4 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.