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Southwest Airlines DEN to TUS on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
71%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.3%
4 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
50 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 4
route average 77% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DEN to TUS arrived on time 71% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.3% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #4 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 77% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (57%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 57.8% on time, 2.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 67.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 73.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 68.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 85.4% on time, 2.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 67.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 83.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 71.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 73.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 72.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 64.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 60.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 60.0% 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 aircraft57%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)32%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion9%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DEN to TUS

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

1,186 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 4 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.