Columbus to Sarasota/Bradenton nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Columbus (CMH) to Sarasota/Bradenton (SRQ) about 2 times a week, year-round.
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Columbus to Sarasota/Bradenton in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 869 miles nonstop, about 2 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 in 11 of the last 12 months (not in September 2025): busiest in March 2026 (9 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (2 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: no regular flights
- Oct 2025: 5 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 5 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 4 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 3 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 6 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 9 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 6 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 3 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 2 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 2 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 830 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $250 one way, median $175. 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 $175 one way, middle half $125 to $225, 264 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 564 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $250, 830 tickets
Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $200), 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? Sarasota/Bradenton to Columbus nonstop.
Other airports near Columbus with nonstops to Sarasota/Bradenton
Within about 100 miles of John Glenn Columbus International Airport
Also nonstop from Columbus (CMH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 15 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 9 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 6 times a day
- Detroit (DTW) about 6 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 5 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 5 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 5 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 5 times a day
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