Newark to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, American, Spirit and Republic fly direct from Newark (EWR) to Chicago (ORD) about 17 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 719 miles nonstop, about 2 hr gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 113 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 109 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 113 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 114 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 114 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 101 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 102 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 109 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 122 flights a week
- May 2026: 124 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 120 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 107 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 119 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 72%, American 19%, Envoy 6% (regional operator), Spirit 2%, Republic 1% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 12,234 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $300 one way, median $200. 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 $100 to $250, 14,672 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 14,795 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 10,338 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 12,234 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Apr to Jun 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? Chicago to Newark nonstop.
Other airports near Newark with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Newark Liberty International Airport
Also nonstop from Newark (EWR)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 16 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 12 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 11 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 10 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
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