Chicago to Long Beach nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Chicago (MDW) to Long Beach (LGB) about 7 times a week, year-round.
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Chicago to Long Beach in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,741 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 10 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew in 11 of the last 12 months (not in February 2026): busiest in September 2025 (7 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (1 flight a week).
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 1 flights a week
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: 5 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 6 flights a week
- May 2026: 6 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 6 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 6 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 7 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 500 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $175 and $250 one way, median $200. 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 $175 one way, middle half $150 to $250, 879 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $300, 538 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $250, 408 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $175 to $250, 500 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $225), 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? Long Beach to Chicago nonstop.
Also nonstop from Chicago (MDW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 10 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Dallas (DAL) about 7 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 6 times a day
- Kansas City (MCI) about 6 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 6 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 6 times a day
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