Indianapolis to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: United flies direct from Indianapolis (IND) to San Francisco (SFO) about 12 times a week, year-round.
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Indianapolis to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,943 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 35 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 May 2026 (13 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 8 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 11 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 11 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 10 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 7 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 7 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 8 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 12 flights a week
- May 2026: 13 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 12 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 12 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 12 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,173 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $400 one way, median $275. 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 $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 935 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 1,034 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 601 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 1,173 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $250 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $300), 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? San Francisco to Indianapolis nonstop.
Also nonstop from Indianapolis (IND)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 13 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 8 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 7 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 6 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 5 times a day
- Austin (AUS) about 5 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 5 times a day
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