Chicago to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: United, American, Delta and Frontier fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 24 times a day, year-round.
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Chicago to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,744 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 10 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 August 2026 (171 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (103 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 143 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 128 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 132 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 126 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 103 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 113 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 120 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 127 flights a week
- May 2026: 135 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 151 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 166 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 171 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 47%, American 44%, Delta 7%, Frontier 3% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 17,313 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 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 $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 19,545 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $350, 17,993 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 12,316 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 17,313 tickets
Jul to Sep, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $200), 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? Los Angeles to Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to Los Angeles
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
- 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
- Denver (DEN) about 18 times a day
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