Chicago to Houston nonstop
Yes: United, American, Frontier, Spirit and Republic fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Houston (IAH) about 18 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 925 miles nonstop, about 2 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 every month of the last year, a steady 116 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 124 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 117 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 106 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 115 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 104 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 108 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 112 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 120 flights a week
- May 2026: 121 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 121 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 122 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 125 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 18%, Envoy 5% (regional operator), Frontier 5%, Spirit 3%, Republic 1% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 10,170 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $275 one way, median $175. 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 $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 11,389 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 10,511 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 8,217 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 10,170 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $175), 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? Houston to Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to Houston
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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