Flights Louisville → Baltimore
SDF → BWI
Route overview
The flight route from Louisville to Baltimore operates with a Boeing 737-300 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 84%, with an average delay of 7.6 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 192 flights on this route, serving the busy destination airport in Baltimore that opened in 1947 and handles nearly 22.8 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Louisville (SDF) → Baltimore (BWI) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 260 flights monitored in recent months, 83% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 8 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.54%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 17/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Baltimore the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Louisville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Baltimore: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Louisville (SDF) to Baltimore (BWI) heads east for about 795 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 25m.
Departures from Louisville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 47% of SDF-BWI flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Louisville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Baltimore it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 260 tracked SDF-BWI flights, 83% left on time with an average delay of 8 min and a 1.5% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about SDF-BWI
On the Louisville (SDF) -> Baltimore (BWI) route, on-time performance is 83% with an average delay of 8 minutes, based on 260 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Louisville-Baltimore is 1.54% across 260 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
