OnTimeRoutes
B

Southwest Airlines DEN to STL on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Denver to St. Louis · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
77%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
12 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
59 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 4
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DEN to STL arrived on time 77% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #4 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (59%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 66.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 65.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 81.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 83.0% on time, 0.6% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 78.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 86.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 85.7% on time, 0.6% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 77.0% on time, 1.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 72.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 67.2% on time, 1.4% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 68.3% on time, 1.3% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft59%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)31%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion8%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on DEN to STL

Full DEN to STL comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

2,194 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 12 cancelled, 5 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.