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Southwest Airlines SEA to DEN on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
68%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.6%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
17 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#6 of 6
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SEA to DEN arrived on time 68% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.6% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #6 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (42%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 60.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 57.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 61.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 70.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 76.7% on time, 5.5% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 78.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 90.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 82.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 71.1% on time, 3.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 70.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 52.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 53.6% 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 aircraft42%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion26%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on SEA to DEN

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

1,345 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.