Houston to New York nonstop
Yes: United, Delta, Spirit and SkyWest fly direct from Houston (IAH) to New York (LGA) about 11 times a day, year-round.
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Houston to New York in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,416 miles nonstop, about 3 hr 25 min 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: busiest in September 2025 (86 flights a week), quietest in March 2026 (55 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 86 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 83 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 81 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 75 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 61 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 57 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 55 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 84 flights a week
- May 2026: 77 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 79 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 76 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 77 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 57%, Delta 36%, Spirit 5%, SkyWest 2% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 10,931 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 $125 to $275, 9,226 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 10,605 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 8,687 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 10,931 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Oct to Dec 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? New York to Houston nonstop.
Other airports near Houston with nonstops to New York
Within about 100 miles of George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Also nonstop from Houston (IAH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 15 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 13 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 9 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 9 times a day
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