Southwest Airlines · Rate Limits
Southwest Airlines Rate Limits
Southwest Airlines does not publish rate-limit documentation for any third-party-accessible API. The www.southwest.com/api endpoints are internal / first-party. Any limits applied to partner integrations (NDC, loyalty, distribution) are governed by the partnership contract rather than a public throttling policy.
Southwest Airlines Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Southwest Airlines on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.
The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Fortune 500, Airlines, Aviation, Travel, and Rate Limiting.
1 Limits
Throttle: 429
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Limits
Partner / Contract-Bound Limits contract
see partnership agreement
Numbers, windows, and burst behavior are negotiated per agreement and not publicly documented.
Policies
Contractual Throttling
Throttling and quota enforcement, where present, are defined in the partner integration agreement; no general-purpose backoff or header contract is published.