RareNonstop · 5h
CHI to SJUPuerto Rico
San Juan
$162
usually $340
−52%
Most monthly lows $287–$340. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · CHI → ALC
Chicago to Alicante
Best fare, round trip
$761
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 11 Jan
- Return
- Sun 17 Jan
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11h
- Airline
Icelandair
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
SpainAlicanteA castle on a rock over a working Mediterranean city — and the cheapest fares on the Spanish coast.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsAlicante–Elche (ALC)Every route into AlicanteFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Icelandair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $761 for 7,082 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 9th — 2.1× the $368 we hold from Abu Dhabi. For context, the middle fare among the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $729. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Alicante: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on 19 Aug — $851 then versus $793 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $749, on 9 Nov.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ≈11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,082 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Icelandair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
CHI → ALC, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Alicante?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Alicante?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Icelandair. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
Next step
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