Houston to Midland/Odessa nonstop
Yes: United and SkyWest fly direct from Houston (IAH) to Midland/Odessa (MAF) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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Houston to Midland/Odessa in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 429 miles nonstop, about 1 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 November 2025 (26 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 17 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 17 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 26 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 14 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 13 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 15 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 13 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 13 flights a week
- May 2026: 11 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 13 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 75%, SkyWest 25% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,764 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $425 one way, median $300. 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 $275 one way, middle half $225 to $375, 1,625 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 1,653 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 1,582 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 1,764 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $275 to $300 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? Midland/Odessa to Houston nonstop.
Other airports near Houston with nonstops to Midland/Odessa
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
- New York (LGA) about 11 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 9 times a day
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