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Southwest Airlines STL to BOS on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from St. Louis to Boston · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
66%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.7%
7 flights
Avg arrival delay
22 min
60 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 70% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on STL to BOS arrived on time 66% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.7% were cancelled, and 12% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 70% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (43%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 56.7% on time, 2.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 80.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 61.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 50.5% on time, 1.1% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 72.9% on time, 1.2% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 81.8% on time, 4.3% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 86.0% on time, 6.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 60.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 64.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 61.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 54.5% 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 aircraft43%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion32%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)22%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on STL to BOS

934 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 7 cancelled, 2 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.