El Paso to Chicago nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from El Paso (ELP) to Chicago (MDW) about 7 times a week, seasonally.
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- Distance and flight time
- 1,237 miles nonstop, about 3 hr 5 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 Jan 2026 and Jun 2026 to Aug 2026, up to 7 flights a week, with no flights the rest of the year.
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 6 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 1 flights a week
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: no regular flights
- Apr 2026: no regular flights
- May 2026: no regular flights
- Jun 2026: 6 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 484 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $275 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 $150 one way, middle half $125 to $225, 475 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $250, 441 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 219 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 484 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $175), 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 El Paso nonstop.
Also nonstop from El Paso (ELP)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 5 times a day
- Dallas (DAL) about 5 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 4 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 4 times a day
- Austin (AUS) about 3 times a day
- Houston (HOU) about 3 times a day
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