Burbank to Chicago nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Burbank (BUR) to Chicago (MDW) about 7 times a week, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 1,740 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 10 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 September 2025 (7 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (2 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 2 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 5 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 5 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 7 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 489 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $325 one way, median $250. 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 $225 one way, middle half $175 to $300, 704 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 497 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 262 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $325, 489 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $225 to $250 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 Burbank nonstop.
Other airports near Burbank with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport
Also nonstop from Burbank (BUR)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 11 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 9 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 8 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 7 times a day
- Oakland (OAK) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 6 times a day
- San Jose (SJC) about 6 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 6 times a day
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