Is there a nonstop flight from McAllen (MFE) to Austin (AUS)?

Yes. SkyWest operates a nonstop MFE–AUS service year-round.

How often do flights leave MFE for AUS?

About daily — 19.6 departures a week in August 2026, compared with 19.8 a week in February 2026.

How much does a nonstop MFE to AUS flight cost?

Half of tickets sold on this route were between $50 and $175 one way, with a median of $100. Based on 396 ticket records in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025.

Nonstop route

McAllen to Austin nonstop

Yes: SkyWest flies direct from McAllen (MFE) to Austin (AUS) about 3 times a day, year-round.

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daily19.6 flights a week

Year-roundflown 12 of the last 12 months

$50–$175typical one-way · median $100 · US DOT Q2 2025

279miles · about 1 hr 5 min

Route detail

McAllen to Austin in numbers

Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.

Distance and flight time: 279 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 5 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 20 flights a week.
Sep 2025: 20 flights a week
Oct 2025: 20 flights a week
Nov 2025: 19 flights a week
Dec 2025: 20 flights a week
Jan 2026: 19 flights a week
Feb 2026: 20 flights a week
Mar 2026: 20 flights a week
Apr 2026: 20 flights a week
May 2026: 19 flights a week
Jun 2026: 20 flights a week
Jul 2026: 19 flights a week
Aug 2026: 20 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings.
Who operates the flights: SkyWest is the only carrier filing this pair.
Fares: Half of the 396 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $50 and $175 one way, median $100. 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 $75 one way, middle half $50 to $150, 491 tickets
Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $150, 519 tickets
Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $150, 463 tickets
Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $175, 396 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $75 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $100), 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? Austin to McAllen nonstop.

Other airports near McAllen with nonstops to Austin

Within about 100 miles of McAllen Miller International Airport

HRL to AUSValley International Airport, Harlingen, TX36 miles from MFE · about 3 times a day · Southwest

Also nonstop from McAllen (MFE)

Busiest other routes out of the same airport

Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a day
Houston (IAH) about 3 times a day
Las Vegas (LAS) about 8 times a week
Phoenix (PHX) about 7 times a week
Orlando (SFB) about 2 times a week

All 6 nonstop destinations from MFE

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