Houston to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, American, Frontier, Spirit and Republic fly direct from Houston (IAH) to Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 925 miles nonstop, about 2 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, a steady 116 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 124 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 116 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 105 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 115 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 104 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 108 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 113 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 119 flights a week
- May 2026: 122 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 120 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 122 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 125 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 68%, American 18%, Envoy 5% (regional operator), Frontier 5%, 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 10,469 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 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 $75 to $250, 11,498 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 10,431 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 8,377 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 10,469 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 Houston nonstop.
Also nonstop from Houston (IAH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- 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
- San Francisco (SFO) about 9 times a day
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