Route brief · CHI → DPS
Chicago → Bali
$938
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 8 – Nov 9 · 32 nights
Cathay Pacific1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDPSBaliRice terraces, surf breaks and volcano sunrises — long-haul fares here swing wildly, which is our favorite kind of route.Best windowApr–OctAirportsDenpasar (DPS)All routes into BaliWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Bali: Apr–Oct. 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 21 hours outbound, on a 32-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $938 for 15,697 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bali, this fare ranks 16th — 1.8× the $527 we hold from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $938. 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,206 then versus $983 now, across 4 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 $938, on Oct 8.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Denpasar (DPS)
- Flight time
- ~21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~15,697 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Oct
CHI → DPS, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Bali?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Bali?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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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