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Southwest Airlines DEN to RIC on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
62%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.0%
3 flights
Avg arrival delay
17 min
40 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 71% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DEN to RIC arrived on time 62% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 71% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (46%).

On-time trend by month

20%60%100%July 2025: 30.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 63.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 69.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 56.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 65.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 64.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 80.0% on time, 23.1% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 89.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 58.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 57.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 57.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 55.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 51.6% 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

  • Late-arriving aircraft46%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)35%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion19%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DEN to RIC

297 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 3 cancelled, 3 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.