Chicago to Fort Lauderdale nonstop
Yes: United, American, Spirit, JetBlue and Frontier fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 8 times a day, year-round.
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Chicago to Fort Lauderdale in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,182 miles nonstop, about 3 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: busiest in March 2026 (94 flights a week), quietest in June 2026 (47 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 48 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 50 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 66 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 81 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 84 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 87 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 94 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 74 flights a week
- May 2026: 52 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 47 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 56 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 57 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 42%, American 26%, Spirit 15%, JetBlue 10%, Frontier 8% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 7,689 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 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 $100 one way, middle half $50 to $200, 7,808 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $275, 9,154 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $275, 9,016 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 7,689 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $150), 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? Fort Lauderdale to Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to Fort Lauderdale
Within about 100 miles of Chicago O'Hare International Airport
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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