Orlando (MCO) – Chicago (MDW)
- Distance
- 1,593 km
- 990 mi · 860 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h 48 min / 2 h 32 min
- Average gate to gate: MCO → MDW / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 201 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (119 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 755,500
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −4.0%
- Flights / week
- 104
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 83%
- 911,763 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 2
- WN, F9
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from MCO
- 340°
- Heading from MDW
- 156°
- Halfway point
- 35.15, -84.27
- Great-circle km
- 1,595 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MCO → MDW
- 2 h 24 min
- In the air MDW → MCO
- 2 h 7 min
- Clocks
- Chicago is 1 h behind Orlando
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 40 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 60,709 |
| Sep 2025 | 59,230 |
| Oct 2025 | 68,167 |
| Nov 2025 | 59,046 |
| Dec 2025 | 62,209 |
| Jan 2026 | 57,300 |
| Feb 2026 | 58,703 |
| Mar 2026 | 78,475 |
| Apr 2026 | 59,699 |
| May 2026 | 56,707 |
| Jun 2026 | 66,630 |
| Jul 2026 | 68,625 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 442 |
| Sep 2025 | 427 |
| Oct 2025 | 489 |
| Nov 2025 | 444 |
| Dec 2025 | 480 |
| Jan 2026 | 421 |
| Feb 2026 | 409 |
| Mar 2026 | 544 |
| Apr 2026 | 431 |
| May 2026 | 395 |
| Jun 2026 | 450 |
| Jul 2026 | 475 |
Airlines flying MCO–MDW nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 96 | 91% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 8.0 | 9% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 2,239 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 1,628 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 1,122 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-200n · 368 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 33 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 17 flights
Also carried: 429 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 73.1%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 17 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.6%
- Flights counted
- 5,516
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 72.7% | 17 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 78.9% | 19 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 34% · aircraft arriving late 37% · air traffic system 23% · weather 5% · security 1%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $207
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $184
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Southwest Airlines
- 82% of passengers · $220
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 17% of passengers · $136
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $186 · Q3 2025 $158 · Q4 2025 $186 · Q1 2026 $207).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $211, likely $187–$241
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 76% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 5.6%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 11% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 1,595 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.
Every airport pair between Orlando and Chicago
Kilometres. Linked numbers have a page of their own. All Orlando airports · All Chicago airports