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Southwest Airlines DCA to MKE on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Washington to Milwaukee · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
83%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.1%
14 flights
Avg arrival delay
10 min
54 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 77% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DCA to MKE arrived on time 83% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.1% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 77% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (49%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 68.9% on time, 1.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 84.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 80.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 87.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 87.0% on time, 3.6% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 81.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 94.4% on time, 6.9% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 84.1% on time, 2.2% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 81.8% on time, 3.5% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 83.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 84.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 76.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 69.1% on time, 8.3% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft49%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)30%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion18%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DCA to MKE

681 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 14 cancelled, 0 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.