Route brief · CHI → DFW
Chicago → Dallas
$148
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 4 – Sep 8 · 4 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDFWDallasAmerican’s fortress hub — which means almost everywhere connects, and Latin America is closer than the coasts.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsDFW · Love Field (DAL)All routes into DallasWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Dallas: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. 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 5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $148 for 1,295 km each way, that works out to about $57 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 29% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $186 then versus $240 now, across 5 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 $145, on Sep 18.
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) ↔ DFW · Love Field (DAL)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,295 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
CHI → DFW, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Dallas?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Dallas?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. 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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