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Southwest Airlines LAX to TUS on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
66%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.2%
1 flights
Avg arrival delay
17 min
47 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 80% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on LAX to TUS arrived on time 66% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.2% were cancelled, and 9% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 80% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (72%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 80.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 77.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 66.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 68.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 79.5% on time, 2.2% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 70.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 91.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 65.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 59.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 69.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 56.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 44.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 50.0% 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 aircraft72%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)20%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion7%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on LAX to TUS

479 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 1 cancelled, 0 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.