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Southwest Airlines BWI to MDW on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Baltimore to Chicago · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
76%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.2%
39 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
60 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 2
route average 76% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on BWI to MDW arrived on time 76% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.2% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 76% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (47%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 64.1% on time, 4.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 74.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 86.5% on time, 0.6% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 76.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.6% on time, 6.3% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 65.2% on time, 1.5% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 86.7% on time, 3.9% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 82.1% on time, 3.4% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 68.1% on time, 4.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 82.3% on time, 0.8% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 69.5% on time, 1.2% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 64.5% on time, 5.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft47%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)30%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion18%
  • Extreme weather5%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on BWI to MDW

1,767 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 39 cancelled, 12 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.