Southwest Airlines status
Southwest Airlines uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 173 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Southwest Airlines down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached Southwest Airlines successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 496 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 453 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 302 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 364 ms |
Based on 212 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when Southwest Airlines misbehaves
Southwest Airlines is a travel service in our travel catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- SearchFares, routes and availability
- BookingCompleting a reservation
- PaymentsCheckout authorisation
- Check-inOnline check-in and boarding passes
- AccountLogin and loyalty programme
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of Southwest Airlines's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Southwest Airlines appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines offers digital tools for flight booking, mobile check-in, and managing Rapid Rewards accounts. Travelers use the website and app to view flight status updates and modify existing reservations. System outages frequently impact the check-in process, prevent the retrieval of digital boarding passes, or cause errors during the payment stage of a booking. Rimetry tracks the availability of these travel services from various points around the globe to ensure you have the latest information on the airline's digital operational status.
Southwest Airlines (southwest.com) is a travel service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now Southwest Airlines is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 173 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to southwest.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Southwest Airlines include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Southwest Airlines?
Southwest Airlines booking, check-in, and flight status.
Southwest Airlines is part of our Travel category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Search or availability errors
- · Booking fails at the payment step
- · Online check-in unavailable
- · Boarding passes not loading
Similar patterns often surface across other travel providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Check your booking confirmation email before repeating a payment
- · Try check-in in a browser if the app fails — boarding passes often work there
- · Search again with slightly different dates; some errors are inventory-specific
- · Keep screenshots of any confirmation you do receive
- · Contact the operator directly when travel is imminent
- · Check Southwest Airlines's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to travel.
FAQ
- Is Southwest Airlines down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past Southwest Airlines incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to travel.