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Southwest Airlines LAX to DEN on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
73%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
53 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 5
route average 82% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on LAX to DEN arrived on time 73% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (45%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 70.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 71.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 76.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 76.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.8% on time, 2.5% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 74.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 80.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 78.8% on time, 1.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 68.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 84.3% on time, 0.6% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 70.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 58.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 60.7% 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 aircraft45%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)27%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion27%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on LAX to DEN

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

1,902 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 8 cancelled, 7 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.