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Cheap Flights from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl (BHM-ORD)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl

Sat, Aug 30 - Sat, Aug 30
United Airlines Logo
7:30 am - 9:55 amBHM-ORD
2h 25mnonstop
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4:45 pm - 6:49 pmORD-BHM
2h 04mnonstop
$181United Airlines
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Sat, Aug 23 - Mon, Aug 25
American Airlines Logo
10:48 am - 1:06 pmBHM-ORD
2h 18mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
8:44 pm - 11:01 pmORD-BHM
2h 17mnonstop
$193American Airlines
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Tue, Sep 30 - Wed, Oct 8
Delta Logo
2:07 pm - 7:00 pmBHM-ORD
4h 53m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:20 am - 12:06 pmORD-BHM
6h 46m1 stop
$201Delta
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Fri, Sep 5 - Sun, Sep 7
American Airlines Logo
6:32 am - 8:49 amBHM-ORD
2h 17mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
8:23 am - 10:27 amORD-BHM
2h 04mnonstop
$205American Airlines
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Sat, Aug 23 - Mon, Aug 25
Delta Logo
7:30 am - 2:19 pmBHM-ORD
6h 49m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:00 pm - 10:52 pmORD-BHM
5h 52m1 stop
$213Delta
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Thu, Aug 21 - Mon, Aug 25
Delta Logo
7:16 pm - 11:56 pmBHM-ORD
4h 40m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:00 pm - 10:52 pmORD-BHM
5h 52m1 stop
$225Delta
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Wed, Aug 27 - Wed, Sep 3
Southwest Logo
2:10 pm - 11:05 pmBHM-ORD
8h 55m1 stop
Southwest Logo
7:30 am - 3:05 pmORD-BHM
7h 35m1 stop
$237Southwest
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Tue, Sep 2 - Wed, Sep 3
Southwest Logo
2:10 pm - 11:05 pmBHM-ORD
8h 55m1 stop
Southwest Logo
7:30 am - 3:05 pmORD-BHM
7h 35m1 stop
$266Southwest
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Thu, Sep 4 - Sun, Sep 7
Spirit Airlines Logo
4:31 pm - 10:48 pmBHM-ORD
6h 17m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
5:05 am - 3:36 pmORD-BHM
10h 31m1 stop
$273Spirit Airlines
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Fri, Aug 22 - Mon, Aug 25
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:49 pm - 7:07 pmBHM-ORD
23h 18m2 stops
Spirit Airlines Logo
10:26 am - 4:33 pmORD-BHM
6h 07m1 stop
$282Spirit Airlines
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Expert advice for your flight from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl

 
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American's Main Cabin Extra provides early boarding and complimentary drinks, enhancing travel comfort.


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United offers Priority Boarding to avoid gate-checking carry-ons, ideal for quick boarding.


United's Economy Plus offers up to six inches more legroom, enhancing comfort on short flights.

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KAYAK's insights & trends for Birmingham to O'Hare Intl flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport, look for departures on Thursdays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Chicago O'Hare Airport, Saturday is the cheapest day to fly and Sunday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport is May, where tickets cost $319 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and March, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $460 and $421 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop layover the cheapest option at $341 on average.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 44% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 9 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$91
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 5% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 7% lower on average.
Flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport

When to book flights from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport was $91 for a one-way ticket and $181 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Birmingham and Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    No

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    When flying out of Birmingham you will be using Birmingham. You will be landing at Chicago O'Hare Airport, also known as Chicago O'Hare Intl.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    American Airlines, Delta, LATAM Airlines, United Airlines, and Lufthansa offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    The Canadair (Bombardier) Regional Jet CRJ-550 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Birmingham and Chicago O'Hare Airport, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    There are nonstop flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Birmingham to Chicago, Delta or United Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Birmingham to Chicago are Delta and United Airlines. With an average price for the route of $462 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. United Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $435 and an overall rating of 7.4.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Chicago O'Hare Airport from Birmingham is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Chicago O'Hare Airport with an airline and back to Birmingham with another airline. Booking your flights between Birmingham and ORD can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Chicago O'Hare Airport from Birmingham up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $212 or less one-way and $272 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl.
Find which airlines fly direct from Birmingham Airport to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare Intl

Monday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Tuesday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Wednesday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Thursday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Friday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Saturday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

Sunday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +6 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +7 more

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Direct returns

Chicago O'Hare Intl to Birmingham

Monday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Tuesday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Wednesday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Thursday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Friday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Saturday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

Sunday

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +5 more

Aer Lingus, Air Canada, +6 more

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Reviews of the top 3 airlines serving from Birmingham to O'Hare Intl

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Birmingham to Chicago. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 7980 reviews
8.2Boarding
8.5Crew
7.9Comfort
7.9Entertainment
7.3Food
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Delayed and took off even later than the scheduled delay time

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jul 2025DTW - SEA
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Delayed and took off even later than the scheduled delay time

For a 69 year old with health problems I had the worse experience, no wheelchair when I entered a lady told me to sit and wait while a gentleman told me I had to walk to the Delta station, which I did. I had a carry on and a bag, and I was traveling with my service dog, which was on his carrier and the lady charged me for my carry on luggage, beside all the waiting cause of the delay, I had to walk to get my luggage cause no wheelchair showed up, I am so disappointed. I will get in touch with the company. I got home at 3:00 am, not good for my health situation.

Great experience on Delta. Staff from baggage check to flight attendants were very courteous and professional. My only issue was a personal preference for pretzels instead of the chips and cookies that were offered.

There was no problems, just a little uncomfortable with seats that do not lay back a little

Always good but we must do something about people in rows ahead of you that don't put their seats back up when they are suppose to. And It's rough to not be able to even lean over to get something out of my purse.

Flight was delayed, 30+ bags had to be gate checked. Crew were very friendly!

Everything was good until we were boarding our connection flight in Atlanta, we were told to gate check our carry-on, but when we got inside the plane, there was plenty of room in the overhead.

Did not know my son and I had different seating arrangements. He was fine, but it was disappointing.

Flight was canceled, and no effort was made to help with rebooking, no hotel vouchers, no car transportation and minimal food voucher and most places for food were closed by the time the voucher was given. Waited for 3 hours for bags. Simply the worst travel experience I have ever had

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

Weather delay in Chicago?. No sense of urgency to make connection in Chicago for our connecting flight that wasn't delayed. Connection was missed.

Overall it was good. I missed my connection but I was put on another flight.

Overall a very poor experience - booked premium economy tickets but due to last minute flight delays , all my itinery went for a toss and had to fly economy class with no access to lounge or any compensation by united airlines to make up for the flight delays . i had expected better experience than that from united.

It was fine, definitely older planes with no charging or anything. There’s no entertainment set up on board, but it is nice that they allow you to access the in flight entertainment from your phone without having to pay for the Wi-Fi and they do offer free texting.

I liked that the flight was nonstop from ORD to CIU for $200 round trip.

While the staff was pleasant and helpful, the following observations are for your awareness. There was some delay on the tarmac on take off and landing. The paid lunch/food offerings were limited. Entertainment was only available on WiFi at a cost.

The first flight was better in terms of the aircraft.

Smooth flight. Boarding was chaotic. Could not hear the gate agent over the intercom. People were lined up in the wrong lines. Groups one and two were told to board through line one and group 3 through line 2. All very confusing. Once in the air, the flight was smooth. There was no entertainment option on this aircraft, even though it was a larger aircraft.

Overall poor for me I paid extra for seats with leg room and my regional flights exit row seats have less leg room then the others that's money that could have been saved and on my final flight home the flights air was not operating it was unbearably hot in the cabin I will be contacting United and filing a DOT complaint

There's just no way to sit fully upright and comfortably in these seats. There needs to be 2 more inches of room, and that's not something that only one person on the flight needs - the whole flight needs 2 more inches of room. If that means you sell 6 less seats, so be it. It's too close for anyone. Forcing people to pay for "premium" economy just to get "barely enough space to breathe" isn't really an answer to that.

Couldn’t get the door on the plane to close leading to a nearly 2 hour delay. But, hey at least they didn’t cancel the flight.

The flight was fine and the crew awesome. The problem is ORD and AA. Computers went down, ORD fell apart and a 40 min flight turned into a 3 hour trip. Guess the answer is to not try and fly to ORD after noon. But, as I said, crew was awesome and did everything they could to lesson the flight time.

The flight was fine but the 8 hour delay in Chicago was awful - 5 gate changes and repeated delays without an explanation. No vouchers. Nothing.

Most miserable flight ever. We waited almost 2 hours on the runway because the flight was oversold. American offered $1200 credit. Then there was some nonsense about weight distribution. Ridiculous. No food for 8 plus hours on the flight. I will be writing a letter.

The flight was 2 hour delayed, otherwise everything was excellent. The delay was due to the hourly limit requirement so given that as a reason, I'm happy with the flight!

Not sure the logic of the boarding in Groups. I was loaded first on the aisle. Then the guy in the middle. Then the guy by the window. Constantly holding up the other people boarding behind them with us blocking the aisle and this happened in most of the other rows

To start, I’d like to say that every American Airline personnel I interacted with on the ground, especially flight crew, was very friendly and did their best to help me out. Despite this, however, my experience with the airline was an entire mess. The 7:19 PM flight was heavily delayed due to weather, and pushed to 10:30 AM the next morning. Because of this, I had to spend the night inside of the airport. At some point later in the night, I got an email saying that the flight had been canceled. I called the support number, and the representative on the other line told me that the flight was still on and that I didn’t need to rebook. The next morning, no one came to the gate to open the door for the crew until almost 11 AM. By this time the flight crew had been waiting for over an hour, and they had called management to get someone to open the door for them multiple times. Around 11:30, the gate screen had changed to a different flight. I ended up buying a last minute ticket with Southwest airline just to get to Chicago, because the next flight with American wasn’t until 7:19 pm that day. Now, earlier that morning my suitcase had been sent ahead of me to ORD. I went to baggage claim to ask them if I could have my suitcase forwarded to where I was staying. The representative at SDF baggage claim said they could and put the claim in for me. As I was going back through TSA, I got an email that the airline had found my suitcase, but the next step was to send it BACK to SDF. I called the airline support number again, and I made it clear that my suitcase needed to stay in Chicago and to not come back to SDF. The representative told me that they would hold my suitcase at ORD and that it wasn’t going to be forwarded anywhere. Once I got there, I found that they had loaded my suitcase onto a plane to send it back to SDF. Thankfully, I had gotten to the baggage claim counter in time for them to put in a request to bring my suitcase back up. My refund with the airline is processing already, but because of this entire experience and miscommunication at every turn of the way, I will not book with American Airlines in the future.

The plane was late and then sat on the runway for almost 45 minutes before taking off.

Crew professional. Easy bag drop off. On time. Good entertainment.

Everything was great. Boarding, early departure, early arrival, and deplaning were smooth. Smooth flight.

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