Nashville to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, SkyWest, American, Republic and Southwest fly direct from Nashville (BNA) to Chicago (ORD) about 13 times a day, year-round.
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Nashville to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 409 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 20 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 April 2026 (115 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (69 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 92 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 108 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 94 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 82 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 69 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 82 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 94 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 115 flights a week
- May 2026: 110 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 94 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 92 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 94 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 34%, SkyWest 31% (regional operator), Envoy 18% (regional operator), Republic 8% (regional operator), American 5%, Southwest 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 5,568 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $250 one way, median $150. 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 $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 5,848 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 5,357 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 4,072 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 5,568 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $150 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (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 Nashville nonstop.
Also nonstop from Nashville (BNA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 12 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 12 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 9 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 9 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 9 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 8 times a day
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