Route brief · CHI → AMS
Chicago → Amsterdam
$520
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 8 – Sep 18 · 10 nights
Icelandair1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Amsterdam: Apr–May · Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Icelandair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $520 for 6,608 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Amsterdam, this fare ranks 5th — 1.8× the $283 we hold from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $592. We have 3 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,608 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Icelandair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
CHI → AMS, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Amsterdam?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Amsterdam?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Icelandair. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). 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.
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