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Southwest Airlines COS to DEN on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Colorado Springs to Denver · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
77%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.3%
3 flights
Avg arrival delay
14 min
55 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on COS to DEN arrived on time 77% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.3% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was air traffic control & airport congestion (48%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 56.3% on time, 1.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 61.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 79.6% on time, 1.1% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 78.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 79.3% on time, 2.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 69.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 91.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 84.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 72.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 81.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 83.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 61.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 77.1% 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

  • Air traffic control & airport congestion48%
  • Late-arriving aircraft36%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)15%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on COS to DEN

1,129 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 3 cancelled, 2 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.