Chicago to Anchorage nonstop
Yes: United, Alaska and American fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Anchorage (ANC) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Chicago to Anchorage in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,846 miles nonstop, about 6 hr 25 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 July 2026 (35 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (1 flight a week).
- Sep 2025: 24 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 11 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 3 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 1 flights a week
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: 6 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 33 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 35 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 32 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 44%, Alaska 35%, American 22% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,103 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $275 and $450 one way, median $325. 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 $325 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 1,700 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 201 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $325 one way, middle half $275 to $450, 1,103 tickets
Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $275 one way) and Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $325), 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? Anchorage to Chicago nonstop.
Also nonstop from Chicago (ORD)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- New York (LGA) about 30 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 25 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 24 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 22 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 20 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 20 times a day
- Minneapolis (MSP) about 19 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 19 times a day
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