Columbia to Chicago nonstop
Yes: American and SkyWest fly direct from Columbia (CAE) to Chicago (ORD) about 2 times a day, in the summer season only.
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Columbia to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 666 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 55 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew Sep 2025 to Feb 2026 and May 2026 to Aug 2026, up to 19 flights a week, with no flights the rest of the year.
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 19 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 19 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 17 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 11 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 4 flights a week
- Mar 2026: no regular flights
- Apr 2026: no regular flights
- May 2026: 9 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 13 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 14 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 17 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Envoy 61% (regional operator), SkyWest 39% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 437 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $375 one way, median $275. 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 $200 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 602 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 743 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $325, 413 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 437 tickets
Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $200 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $275), 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 Columbia nonstop.
Other airports near Columbia with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Columbia Metropolitan Airport
Also nonstop from Columbia (CAE)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 7 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 2 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 2 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 12 times a week
- Miami (MIA) about 1 time a week
- Charlotte (CLT)
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
- Orlando (SFB)
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