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.

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Limits

Partner / Contract-Bound Limits contract
varies
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.

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