Orlando to Chicago nonstop
Yes: United, American, Frontier, Southwest and Spirit fly direct from Orlando (MCO) to Chicago (ORD) about 14 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 1,005 miles nonstop, about 2 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 March 2026 (148 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (97 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 106 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 120 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 115 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 124 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 119 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 138 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 148 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 133 flights a week
- May 2026: 113 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 99 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 97 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 98 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 43%, American 38%, Frontier 7%, Southwest 7%, Spirit 5% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 15,693 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $250 one way, median $150. 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 $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 12,560 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 12,549 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 14,108 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 15,693 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar 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 Orlando nonstop.
Other airports near Orlando with nonstops to Chicago
Within about 100 miles of Orlando International Airport
Also nonstop from Orlando (MCO)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 22 times a day
- San Juan (SJU) about 19 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 15 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 12 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 12 times a day
- Baltimore (BWI) about 12 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 12 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 12 times a day
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