New York to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, American, Delta, Republic, Spirit and SkyWest fly direct from New York (LGA) to Chicago (ORD) about 30 times a day, year-round.
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New York to Chicago in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 733 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 211 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 226 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 227 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 218 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 196 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 197 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 204 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 198 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 217 flights a week
- May 2026: 221 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 213 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 201 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 211 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 37%, American 25%, Delta 18%, Republic 17% (regional operator), Spirit 1%, SkyWest 1% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 27,712 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 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 $100 to $225, 27,435 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 25,468 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 19,107 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 27,712 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec 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 New York nonstop.
Other airports near New York with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of LaGuardia Airport
Also nonstop from New York (LGA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 21 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 19 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 17 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 14 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 12 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 12 times a day
- Houston (IAH) about 11 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 11 times a day
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