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 → JKT
Chicago to Jakarta
Best fare, round trip
$461
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 11 Feb
- Return
- Thu 25 Feb
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 21.5h
- Airline
United
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
IndonesiaJakartaSoutheast Asia’s largest city and the cheapest way into the rest of Indonesia — Bali is a domestic hop from here.Best windowMay–SepAirportsSoekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)Every route into JakartaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $461 for 15,799 km each way, that works out to about $15 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Jakarta, this is the cheapest right now — 19% under the next one, Washington. It is also the cheapest of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago. We have 1 month 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 Jakarta: May–Sep.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)
- Flight time
- ≈21.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈15,799 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
Good to know
CHI → JKT, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Jakarta?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Jakarta?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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.
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