Chicago to Miami nonstop
Yes: American, United, Spirit and Frontier fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to Miami (MIA) about 11 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 1,197 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 (107 flights a week), quietest in September 2025 (73 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 73 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 74 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 79 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 86 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 89 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 102 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 107 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 92 flights a week
- May 2026: 79 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 76 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 75 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 78 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 69%, United 24%, Spirit 5%, Frontier 1% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 8,828 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $275 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 $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 8,446 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $350, 9,173 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $350, 9,357 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 8,828 tickets
Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar 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? Miami to Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to Miami
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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