Chicago to Honolulu nonstop
Yes: United and American fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Honolulu (HNL) about 7 times a week, year-round.
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Chicago to Honolulu in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 4,243 miles nonstop, about 9 hr 20 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 November 2025 (14 flights a week), quietest in September 2025 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 8 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 14 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 14 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 14 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 14 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 14 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 11 flights a week
- May 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 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
- United 68%, American 32% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 920 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $525 and $775 one way, median $575. 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 $575 one way, middle half $525 to $775, 858 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $625 one way, middle half $550 to $975, 900 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $600 one way, middle half $525 to $925, 1,058 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $575 one way, middle half $525 to $775, 920 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $575 to $625 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Honolulu 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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