Route brief · CHI → MCO
Chicago → Orlando
$145
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $230 · difference $85
Dec 4 – Dec 10 · 6 nights
Frontier AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $154–$237
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMCOOrlandoThe theme parks are the point, and the fare war they create is the cheapest way into Florida.Best windowFeb–Apr · Oct–NovAirportsOrlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)All routes into OrlandoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Dec is the cheapest for CHI → MCO. Best time to be there: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in December around $145 and peak in February near $383 — a $238 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Frontier Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $145 for 1,601 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Orlando, this fare ranks 3rd — 22% above the $119 from Dallas.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $207 then versus $229 now, across 6 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 $118, on Sep 11.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 122 days priced, from 34 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
December 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $145
37% below the $230 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Orlando · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,601 km each way
- Typical price
- $230 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
CHI → MCO, answered.
Is $145 a good price for Chicago to Orlando?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $230 round-trip. At $145 you're 37% below that, saving about $85, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Chicago to Orlando?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Orlando are Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Orlando?
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Orlando?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Frontier Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
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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