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Southwest Airlines DCA to OMA on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
57%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.8%
6 flights
Avg arrival delay
33 min
72 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 71% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DCA to OMA arrived on time 57% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.8% were cancelled, and 17% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 71% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

20%60%100%July 2025: 60.0% on time, 3.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 70.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 73.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 63.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 76.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 34.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 68.0% on time, 7.4% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 76.9% on time, 3.7% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 55.2% on time, 3.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 60.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 54.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 30.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 32.1% on time, 6.7% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)27%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion13%
  • Extreme weather6%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on DCA to OMA

341 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 6 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.