Dallas to Chicago nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Dallas (DAL) to Chicago (ORD), in the winter season only.
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- Distance and flight time
- 798 miles nonstop, about 2 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
- Off since Jun 2026. Last season it flew Sep 2025 to May 2026. Flew Sep 2025 to May 2026, up to 19 flights a week, with no flights the rest of the year.
- Sep 2025: 17 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 19 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 6 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 7 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 7 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 7 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jun 2026: no regular flights
- Jul 2026: no regular flights
- Aug 2026: no regular flights
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 2,175 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $200 one way, median $125. 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 $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 2,101 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 1,762 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 1,227 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 2,175 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $125 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 Dallas nonstop.
Other airports near Dallas with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Dallas Love Field
Also nonstop from Dallas (DAL)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Houston (HOU) about 11 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 8 times a day
- San Antonio (SAT) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 7 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 7 times a day
- Chicago (MDW) about 7 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
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