Panama City Beach to Chicago nonstop
Yes: SkyWest, American, Republic and United fly direct from Panama City Beach (ECP) to Chicago (ORD) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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Panama City Beach to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 810 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
- Flew in 11 of the last 12 months (not in November 2025): busiest in March 2026 (27 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (1 flight a week).
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 6 flights a week
- Nov 2025: no regular flights
- Dec 2025: 3 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 1 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 10 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 27 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 23 flights a week
- May 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 20 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 16 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 34% (regional operator), Envoy 32% (regional operator), Republic 32% (regional operator), United 3% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 548 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $300 one way, median $225. 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 $200 to $350, 292 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 152 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 243 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 548 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 Panama City Beach nonstop.
Other airports near Panama City Beach with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport
Also nonstop from Panama City Beach (ECP)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 7 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 4 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 3 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 3 times a day
- Dallas (DAL) about 2 times a day
- Austin (AUS) about 2 times a day
- St. Louis (STL) about 10 times a week
- Washington (DCA) about 8 times a week
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