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.
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