Anchorage to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, Alaska and American fly direct from Anchorage (ANC) to Chicago (ORD) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Anchorage to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,846 miles nonstop, about 6 hr 25 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew in 11 of the last 12 months (not in February 2026): busiest in July 2026 (34 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (1 flight a week).
- Sep 2025: 23 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 10 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 6 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 3 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 1 flights a week
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: 6 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 33 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 34 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 32 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 44%, Alaska 34%, American 22% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 971 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $400 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 $300 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 1,666 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 210 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 54 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 971 tickets
Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $250 one way) and Jul to Sep, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $300), 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? Chicago to Anchorage nonstop.
Also nonstop from Anchorage (ANC)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Seattle (SEA) about 22 times a day
- Denver (DEN) 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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