Anchorage to Denver nonstop
Yes: United, Alaska and Southwest fly direct from Anchorage (ANC) to Denver (DEN) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Anchorage to Denver in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,405 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 30 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in July 2026 (35 flights a week), quietest in April 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 10 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 10 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 11 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 13 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 8 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 20 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 31 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 35 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 35 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 68%, Alaska 17%, Southwest 15% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 877 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $250 and $425 one way, median $300. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $325 one way, middle half $250 to $450, 1,595 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $500, 316 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $375 one way, middle half $325 to $550, 196 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $250 to $425, 877 tickets
Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $300 one way) and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $375), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Denver to Anchorage nonstop.
Also nonstop from Anchorage (ANC)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Seattle (SEA) about 22 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 5 times a day
- Juneau (JNU) about 4 times a day
- Portland (PDX) about 4 times a day
- Minneapolis (MSP) about 3 times a day
- Fairbanks (FAI) about 3 times a day
- Kodiak (ADQ) about 3 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 2 times a day
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