$125 Find Cheap Flights from Chicago to Louisiana

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Cheap Flights from Chicago to Louisiana

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
New Orleans
New Orleans1 stop$204
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge1 stop$303
Shreveport
Shreveport1 stop$309
Lafayette
Lafayette1 stop$309
Alexandria
Alexandria1 stop$298
New Orleans
New Orleans1 stop$204
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge1 stop$303
Shreveport
Shreveport1 stop$309
Lafayette
Lafayette1 stop$309
Alexandria
Alexandria1 stop$298

Book Cheap Chicago to Louisiana Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Chicago to Louisiana 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Chicago to Louisiana

Tue, Sep 29 - Sat, Oct 3
Frontier Logo
6:05 am - 5:08 pm
ORD
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MSY
11h 03m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
6:05 pm - 12:24 am
MSY
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ORD
6h 19m
1 stop
$204Frontier
Sat, Oct 24 - Tue, Oct 27
Frontier Logo
9:20 am - 4:07 pm
ORD
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MSY
6h 47m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
4:58 pm - 12:02 pm
MSY
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ORD
19h 04m
1 stop
$207Frontier
Sat, Oct 10 - Tue, Oct 13
Frontier Logo
9:20 am - 4:07 pm
ORD
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MSY
6h 47m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
5:02 pm - 12:32 pm
MSY
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ORD
19h 30m
2 stops
$209Frontier
Fri, Jun 12 - Fri, Jul 3
American Airlines Logo
5:00 am - 10:13 am
ORD
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AEX
5h 13m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
5:41 pm - 11:39 pm
AEX
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ORD
5h 58m
1 stop
$298American Airlines
Sat, Jul 11 - Sat, Jul 18
Delta Logo
10:55 am - 3:09 pm
MDW
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BTR
4h 14m
1 stop
Delta Logo
4:07 pm - 10:15 pm
BTR
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MDW
6h 08m
1 stop
$303Delta
Sat, Jul 4 - Tue, Jul 14
Delta Logo
6:35 am - 12:47 pm
ORD
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BTR
6h 12m
1 stop
Delta Logo
7:06 pm - 11:53 pm
BTR
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ORD
4h 47m
1 stop
$303Delta
Thu, Jul 30 - Mon, Aug 3
American Airlines Logo
6:04 am - 10:58 am
ORD
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BTR
4h 54m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:28 pm - 12:01 am
BTR
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ORD
5h 33m
1 stop
$309American Airlines
Sat, Jun 6 - Sat, Jun 13
United Airlines Logo
7:30 am - 1:29 pm
ORD
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BTR
5h 59m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
4:09 pm - 9:51 pm
BTR
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ORD
5h 42m
1 stop
$324United Airlines
Fri, Jun 19 - Fri, Jun 26
United Airlines Logo
5:45 pm - 10:44 pm
ORD
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SHV
4h 59m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
5:56 pm - 12:46 am
SHV
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ORD
6h 50m
1 stop
$343United Airlines
Fri, Jun 19 - Fri, Jun 26
Allegiant Air Logo
8:20 pm - 7:18 am
MDW
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SHV
34h 58m
2 stops
Allegiant Air Logo
3:30 pm - 8:33 pm
SHV
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MDW
5h 03m
1 stop
$489Allegiant Air
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Chicago to Louisiana flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Chicago to Louisiana to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Chicago to Louisiana?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Chicago to Louisiana departing in September.

What is the cheapest Chicago to Louisiana flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to Louisiana from Chicago found in the last 72 hours was to New Orleans, at $178 round-trip. The most popular route is from Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport (ORD) to New Orleans (MSY), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $178.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Louisiana?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Chicago to Louisiana depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to Louisiana is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $260 on average. Morning departures are around 4% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Louisiana is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $324.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Chicago to Louisiana?

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 2 stops layover the cheapest option at $390 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Chicago to Louisiana?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Chicago to Louisiana, 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 Chicago to Louisiana is June, when tickets cost $46 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are January and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $543 and $468 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Chicago to Louisiana?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Chicago to Louisiana clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Chicago to Louisiana, look for departures on Fridays and avoid leaving on a Thursday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Louisiana, Friday is the cheapest day to fly and Monday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Chicago to Louisiana?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Chicago to Louisiana, 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 Chicago to Louisiana, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 53% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 17 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$125
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 18% drop in price.
Flight from Chicago O'Hare Airport to New Orleans

FAQs - booking Louisiana flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Chicago to Louisiana?

    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 Chicago to Louisiana.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Chicago to Louisiana 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 Chicago to Louisiana?

    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 from Chicago to Louisiana with an airline and back with another airline.

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

    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 from Chicago to Louisiana up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Chicago to Louisiana

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Chicago to Louisiana. 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Chicago to Louisiana? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.9
SouthwestOverall score based on 4282 reviews
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
Airline reviews

The first time I flew in the extra legroom section. It was difficult to notice a difference. I had bad luck with my neighbors. The crew was okay. Southwest has reduced the live TV options.

4.0 OkayAnonymous, May 2026
MDW - LAX
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The first time I flew in the extra legroom section. It was difficult to notice a difference. I had bad luck with my neighbors. The crew was okay. Southwest has reduced the live TV options.

The flight was smooth. The Southwest experience has degraded overall, but this one was okay.

No gluten free snacks. Seats felt worn or bare bones even though it was a new 737 MAX 8.

One major problem that was very unprofessional and uncalled for. Plane landed and we had to wait 20 minutes to get off the plane since they were waiting for someone to come to the gate to drive the jetway. Southwest couldn't have someone available and waiting for the plane to land? Is there only one person in Hobby airport who knows to drive the jetway? Was he at lunch? In the bar? Uncomfortable and uncalled for!

The checking experience in Orlando was terrible, almost missed the flight. Too many travelers and Southwest completely understaffed.

I'm glad it wasn't only 75% full because I could get a good seat

if I was good. Not happy that I have to pay extra money to get the seat I need for lake room, but I guess that’s a sign of the times.

Seats were very comfortable. They tilted back. Drinks and snacks were free and served 3 times. Attendants were awesome.

Plane was clean and comfortable. Flight attendants and gate staff were professional, friendly and efficient. Boarding and deplaning were orderly and efficient. All in all, the typical excellent Southwest experience.

Truly terrible. Will never willingly fly southwest again. Seats are worse than before they switched to assigned seating. One flight attendant was the opposite of helpful (rude, unhelpful, dismissive, and as my stranger seatmate said unprompted: a total prick). This caused me, 15 minutes into the flight, to book an alternate return flight home on a competing airline (first class 1.2k purchase instead of my existing planned flight) just so I would not have to ever be on that aircraft, with that terrible service person, with those horrific seats ever again.

A long delay. Don't travel late in the day.

Super friendly with lots of drink options an entertainment. Friendly crew.

The crew was great. Very friendly and responsive. The plane was old, small and tight. We ran out of overhead space and I had to check. Middle seat was particularly tight.

Several missed and almost missed connections. It felt like everything was being patched together last minute without enough resources and it ended up being an extremely stressful experience that basically ruined our weekend on the west coast. What a waste.

Crew was friendly. Seats are too narrow, particularly when a big person is in the adjacent seat, but I understand this is due to smaller planes usually flight into Lincoln. I have experienced several flight delays going out and coming into Lincoln airport, I say maybe 50% or higher of the flights I've taken out of this airport have been delayed.

Great flight. Boarded efficiently. Arrived early at CLT. There was no in flight entertainment on this aircraft. Great crew.

The seat was comfortable. There was a lot of turbulence. If it weren't for that,it would have been okay.

Poor communication, flight was delayed for preventable reasons. I missed my connection.

No meal service to the back of the plane as it started late or was too slow to get it out before it was time to land.

Terrible, if possible won't be flying again anytime soon!

The airplane was an old model, the overhead didn’t have enough room for people’s items and made boarding and boarding disappointing and stressful. Crew allowed passengers to bring more than the permitted baggage sizes.

Original flight was on time, then late, then changed gates...4 times. Once our newest plane came in, it was fine.

I almost missed my flight and they helped me out enormously

Delays experienced in boarding/take off due to incoming plane delayed. However, the boarding time/depart time in the app was significantly delayed in providing these updates. Usually not updated until an hour after we should have already boarded. Poorly managed.

Moved to earlier flight which unexpectedly had maintenance issues initially indicated as quick fix to ultimately plane changes. Moved back to original flight, also delayed. In all cases customer updates and communication very unclear, no updates on drivers for delays.

Typical AA - late by 90+ mn. Gate changed twice... Changed the departure time 6 times No explanation, no communication on reasons for delay I travel with AA twice a year... and it is consistently very poor.. I will continue to use AA only when i have to.

The gate got changed several times and the flight was delayed over an hour. Awful experience

American continues to decline in their customer service and its beyond disappointing.

It was an older plane. First Class was not especially roomy or comfortable. It was a short flight so there were no meal but they did offer mixed nuts which used to be normal but now is rare. Crew member was very polite and professional.

Flight to Tampa was delayed taking off due to plane arriving late but no other issues

The airline cancel mi flight, lost a lot of money!!!

They cancelled our flight. 2 hours before we were supposed to take off and offered us nothing! We got our money back and that was it. No other flight to get to our cruise no working with another airline or with us to get there. Terrible customer service, no apology.

We get stuck in the plane when landed during 45min and no communication from the crew People were listening to their phone and music out loud and nobody told them anything I definitely want stop booking spirit flight it is a disaster

Good: It was cheap and they got us to our destination safely. Not so Good: Gates experience with many, many nauseatingly (almost) threatening announcements about bags size and how much they were going to charge us if our bag was too big, even to the point of having a gate agent roaming around through the passengers eyeballing bags size and making people go check their bags in the sizers.

I had a great experience from booking to boarding to landing. This was the best experience from all the flights I’ve had with Spirit so far! The price and times were affordable and perfect. I will fly with them again soon!

Terrible. The flight was randomly delayed in Chicago causing us to miss our connection and they offered us a flight the next day at 6 am and it would have taken till 345 to get to Pensacola. They didn’t cover any fees. Our bags also supposedly were on the flight to Pensacola and we tried to get them yesterday after driving 6 hours and nobody was available. Worst company ever and will never use them again. Had to pay for a rental. Spirit is claiming in climate weather for the delay but there wasn’t any weather issuesz it’s a bunch of bullshit and I am not happy

Checking in at desk in Chicago was horrible. Person was not friendly never smiled and said my flight was not paid for so I had to give another credit card. Then it ended up that I was charged twice. Then after arriving at my destination had to wait on the phone a long time to speak to a person to fix the double charge! Thank goodness the flight was perfect.

Flight was delayed for 12 h. They should stop overlooking flights.

All of our flights were canceled, though every other airline was flying out and in

it was terrible. flight was cancelled hours before the flight without a given reason and no other booking available .

There weren't enough employees at check in took awhile to get bags checked. There wasn't a wheel chair for me, I was sent to someone who turns out to work for a different airline, if My flight hadn't been delayed I probably would have missed my flight as it was, by the time I arrived at my gate, they started boarding in about 15 minutes. I don't know who took me to my gate, definitely was not the normal people who take passengers to the gate. I'm guessing she may have been in a management position. I wish I knew her name, she went beyond to help me. With that said everyone was kind, and were doing the best they could. So, I choose to say it was an Adventure, stressful start, but good. In the end went well. The situation was not only difficult for passengers but the employee's.

The staff at the check in counter was so rude. Made you feel Incompetent

Frontier scheduled a 40 minute connection in DEN. What they failed to mention was that they “close the doors” 20 mins prior to departure, which means you only have 20 mins. Not enough time. Possibly against DOT regulations. Filing complaint.

Flight was scheduled at 9:40pm. Got delayed to 10 am, the next day. crazy

The bag check, flight check-in, and onboard experience convinced my wife and me that we will actively go out of our way to avoid flying Frontier Airlines in the future. At bag check, we were informed that check-in could only be completed via the Frontier mobile app. Unfortunately, the app was extremely frustrating—sending us through repetitive, confusing loops that repeatedly forced us to decline add-on services with nearly every click. While most airline apps upsell, this one felt intentionally exhausting. As the process dragged on, we became genuinely concerned that my phone battery would die before check-in could be completed. We approached the bag check staff—who were standing together talking—and explained both our frustration and our predicament. They laughed. Later, my wife described the interaction as “gaslighting,” which felt accurate. We were then informed it would cost $25 per person simply to have our boarding passes printed. From that point forward, the tone of the experience was consistently hostile. The bag check employees were condescending and combative, behaving more like bullies than customer service staff. Unfortunately, that same attitude continued onboard. One flight attendant argued with me when I attempted to stow my backpack in the overhead bin. I explained that we had each paid $75 to check our bags specifically so we would not need to use carry-on space and could have adequate legroom. She demanded to see my ticket, pointed out that it said “no carry-on”—which I acknowledged—and I reiterated that this was precisely why we paid to check our bags. Her response was, “I don’t make the rules.” She then walked away, but not before asking if I “truly wanted to fly back to Chicago today?”—an unnecessary and unmistakable threat. It is also worth noting that despite booking our tickets together in the same transaction, we were not seated together. Upon our return to Chicago—where we could once again sit together—we compared onboard experiences. We both remarked on how unhappy the flight attendants appeared and how each of us was separately asked whether we would like to purchase a beverage. We declined. At no point was water mentioned as an option, leaving us with the clear impression that even water came at a cost—or that complimentary water, if available at all, was deliberately left unmentioned. Overall, the experience was shocking and deeply disappointing, but it was also a profound learning experience—one we will not forget and will not repeat. -Steve

Plane was hot and miserable and the crew was rude!

12 hour delay required getting on and off plane 3 times - would have at least liked to have been offered a snack or drink

They didn’t offer a water, even after I asked

They switched our terminal 3 times and we were delayed for four plus hours!!!

It was an early flight and most people napped/slept and the crew let us which was nice.

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Cabin class types available on flights to Louisiana

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