Saint Paul (MSP) – Chicago (ORD)
- Distance
- 538 km
- 334 mi · 290 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 42 min / 1 h 35 min
- Average gate to gate: MSP → ORD / back
- Time difference
- none
- CO2 per passenger
- 68 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (40 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 1,256,891
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −4.5%
- Flights / week
- 248
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 83%
- 1,519,312 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 11
- UA, DL, MQ
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 MSP
- 125°
- Heading from ORD
- 309°
- Halfway point
- 43.46, -90.50
- Great-circle km
- 537 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MSP → ORD
- 58 min
- In the air ORD → MSP
- 1 h 2 min
- Clocks
- Same time in both
The estimate for a route without real times is 1 h 25 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
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| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 118,742 |
| Sep 2025 | 118,998 |
| Oct 2025 | 120,043 |
| Nov 2025 | 100,991 |
| Dec 2025 | 100,625 |
| Jan 2026 | 78,743 |
| Feb 2026 | 76,680 |
| Mar 2026 | 94,581 |
| Apr 2026 | 109,894 |
| May 2026 | 109,453 |
| Jun 2026 | 111,405 |
| Jul 2026 | 116,736 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 1,117 |
| Sep 2025 | 1,112 |
| Oct 2025 | 1,186 |
| Nov 2025 | 1,023 |
| Dec 2025 | 1,023 |
| Jan 2026 | 909 |
| Feb 2026 | 895 |
| Mar 2026 | 1,014 |
| Apr 2026 | 1,216 |
| May 2026 | 1,176 |
| Jun 2026 | 1,087 |
| Jul 2026 | 1,151 |
Airlines flying MSP–ORD nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| UAUnited Air Lines | 90 | 47% |
| DLDelta Air Lines | 54 | 22% |
| MQEnvoy Air | 40 | 10% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 29 | 8% |
| YXRepublic Airline | 20 | 5% |
| SYSun Country Airlines | 6.9 | 4% |
| AAAmerican Airlines | 5.2 | 2% |
| OHPSA Airlines | 1.6 | 0% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 0.5 | 0% |
| 9EEndeavor Air | 0.8 | 0% |
| ASAlaska Airlines | 0.2 | 0% |
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
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 3,241 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 1,498 flights
- A200-100 BD-500-1A10 · 1,393 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 1,172 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 1,056 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 964 flights
- Embraer-Emb-170 · 945 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 686 flights
Also carried: 235 tonnes of freight and 460 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 70.4%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 25 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 2.7%
- Flights counted
- 12,688
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| UAUnited Air Lines | 70% | 24 min |
| DLDelta Air Lines | 68% | 26 min |
| MQEnvoy Air | 75.9% | 18 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 67.3% | 32 min |
| YXRepublic Airline | 74.4% | 22 min |
| AAAmerican Airlines | 65.8% | 41 min |
| OHPSA Airlines | 61.4% | 31 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 45.8% | 39 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 29% · aircraft arriving late 32% · air traffic system 30% · weather 10% · security 0%.
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
- $249
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $210
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- United Air Lines
- 45% of passengers · $246
- Lowest-fare airline
- American Airlines
- 13% of passengers · $244
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $200 · Q3 2025 $200 · Q4 2025 $206 · Q1 2026 $249).
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: 537 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 Saint Paul and Chicago
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| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| ORD → LGA | 1,180 km | 2,736,902 |
| ORD → LAX | 2,808 km | 2,332,419 |
| ORD → SFO | 2,971 km | 1,976,484 |
| ORD → DEN | 1,430 km | 1,974,190 |
| ORD → MCO | 1,617 km | 1,924,694 |
| ORD → DFW | 1,290 km | 1,916,312 |
| ORD → BOS | 1,395 km | 1,886,038 |
| ORD → EWR | 1,157 km | 1,731,402 |
| ORD → IAH | 1,489 km | 1,711,056 |
| ORD → PHX | 2,317 km | 1,706,053 |