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Southwest Airlines TPA to MDW on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Tampa to Chicago · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
75%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.1%
32 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
55 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 75% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on TPA to MDW arrived on time 75% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.1% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 75% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (51%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 73.5% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 72.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 84.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 75.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 84.5% on time, 9.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 68.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 85.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 66.7% on time, 0.9% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 71.9% on time, 6.6% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 81.1% on time, 3.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 70.5% on time, 0.8% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 68.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 74.8% on time, 1.5% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft51%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)26%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion20%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on TPA to MDW

1,525 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 32 cancelled, 13 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.