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Southwest Airlines PDX to DEN on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
74%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.2%
3 flights
Avg arrival delay
14 min
47 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 5
route average 83% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on PDX to DEN arrived on time 74% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.2% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #4 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 83% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (45%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 53.3% on time, 1.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 70.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 70.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 77.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 83.3% on time, 0.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 65.7% on time, 0.7% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 85.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 82.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 81.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 68.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 62.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 72.2% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft45%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion26%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)25%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on PDX to DEN

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

1,555 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 3 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.