$55 Find Cheap Flights from Chicago to Texas

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Cheap Flights from Chicago to Texas

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Dallas
Dallasnonstop$100
Houston
Houstonnonstop$90
Austin
Austin1 stop$147
San Antonio
San Antonio1 stop$186
El Paso
El Paso1 stop$148
Harlingen
Harlingen1 stop$251
Dallas
Dallasnonstop$100
Houston
Houstonnonstop$90
Austin
Austin1 stop$147
San Antonio
San Antonio1 stop$186
El Paso
El Paso1 stop$148
Harlingen
Harlingen1 stop$251

Book Cheap Chicago to Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas

Tue, Nov 18 - Tue, Dec 2
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:35 am - 10:20 amORD-IAH
2h 45mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
4:29 pm - 7:16 pmIAH-ORD
2h 47mnonstop
$90Spirit Airlines
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Sat, Oct 4 - Sun, Oct 5
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11:37 am - 2:20 pmORD-IAH
2h 43mnonstop
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8:00 pm - 10:45 pmIAH-ORD
2h 45mnonstop
Mon, Sep 22 - Sun, Sep 28
Frontier Logo
2:26 pm - 5:14 pmMDW-IAH
2h 48mnonstop
Frontier Logo
10:08 am - 12:46 pmIAH-MDW
2h 38mnonstop
$92Frontier
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Mon, Sep 22 - Thu, Sep 25
Frontier Logo
2:26 pm - 5:14 pmMDW-IAH
2h 48mnonstop
Frontier Logo
10:08 am - 12:46 pmIAH-MDW
2h 38mnonstop
$93Frontier
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Wed, Oct 22 - Sat, Oct 25
Southwest Logo
7:30 am - 10:00 amORD-DAL
2h 30mnonstop
Southwest Logo
7:35 pm - 10:00 pmDAL-ORD
2h 25mnonstop
$127Southwest
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Tue, Nov 11 - Sat, Nov 15
Southwest Logo
8:35 pm - 11:20 pmMDW-HOU
2h 45mnonstop
Southwest Logo
6:10 pm - 8:35 pmHOU-MDW
2h 25mnonstop
$133Southwest
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Sat, Oct 4 - Sat, Oct 11
American Airlines Logo
8:58 pm - 11:41 pmORD-AUS
2h 43mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
4:46 pm - 7:44 pmAUS-ORD
2h 58mnonstop
$161American Airlines
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Sat, Dec 13 - Mon, Dec 15
American Airlines Logo
1:12 pm - 4:13 pmORD-AUS
3h 01mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
5:20 pm - 8:10 pmAUS-ORD
2h 50mnonstop
$169American Airlines
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Tue, Nov 11 - Fri, Nov 14
United Airlines Logo
8:08 pm - 11:16 pmORD-SAT
3h 08mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:30 pm - 12:15 amSAT-ORD
4h 45m1 stop
$241United Airlines
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Fri, Dec 12 - Sun, Dec 14
United Airlines Logo
7:52 pm - 10:59 pmORD-SAT
3h 07mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:46 amSAT-ORD
2h 46mnonstop
$245United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Chicago to Texas flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Chicago to Texas 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 Texas?

What is the cheapest Chicago to Texas flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to Texas from Chicago found in the last 72 hours was to Dallas, at $48 round-trip. The most popular route is from Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport (ORD) to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $81.

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

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.

No, with an average price for the route of $241, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Chicago to Texas, 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 Texas is October, when tickets cost $166 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and February, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $231 and $221 respectively.

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

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

When flying from Chicago to Texas, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Chicago, you’ll find the best rates on Thursdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

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

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 Texas, 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 Texas, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 30% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$55
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 1% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 9% increase in price.
Flight from Chicago Midway Airport to Houston George Bush Airport

FAQs - booking Texas flights

  • Are there nursing amenities at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)?

    Yes. IAH offers several lactation rooms for nursing mothers to take care of their babies. In Terminal A, nursing rooms are next to Gate A17 and between Gate A1 and The Breakfast Klub. In Terminal E, a nursing room is adjacent to Gate E11. And in Terminal C, nursing rooms are next to Gate B21 and near Gates C34 and C4, and inside the women's washrooms.

  • Are pet relief areas at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)?

    Yes. AUS offers designated pet/service animal relief areas before and after security to take care of animals’ bathroom needs. Before security at the lower level, the Baggage Claim; in front of the Blue Garage and the Rental Car Counter is the pet relief area. After security, a pet relief area is adjacent to Gate 11.

  • Are there airline lounges at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)?

    Yes. ORD has various airline lounges in its faculties. The United Polaris Lounges is in Terminal 1 adjacent to Gate C18. The Admiral’s Club is on Terminal 3 close to Gates G8, H6/K6, and L2A.The United Lounge is on Terminal 2 is close to Gate F9 and Terminal 1 next to Gates B18, C16, and B6. On Terminal 5, there is the British Airways Lounge next to Gate M17, Sky Club adjacent to Gate M13, Swissport Lounge next to Gate M13, and SAS Lounge close to Gate M19. ORD passengers who don't have membership to the airline lounges can buy a day's pass.

  • What are the most common layover cities for flights from Chicago to Texas?

    If you wish to take a flight with a layover, you’ll find single layover flights from Chicago to Texas. The majority of the route’s layovers are an hour or less thus your entire travel time is under five hours. Nonetheless, the route’s layover will depend on your preferred airline and your landing place in Texas. Flying to Texas with Spirit Airlines your stopover will be in Orlando while with Delta your layover will be in Atlanta. On the flight from Chicago to Dallas, your stopover will be in Branson. Additionally, on the route to Texas from Chicago your stopovers could be in Columbia, St. Louis, Fayetteville, or Oklahoma City among other cities.

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

    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 Texas.

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

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

    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 Texas 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 Texas?

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

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Texas?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Texas is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $271 on average. Morning departures are around 9% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Texas is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $387.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Texas

  • Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) is one of the main airports serving the metropolitan area of Chicago. ORD is a hub for United Airlines and American Airlines and a base for Frontier Airlines. The passenger airlines facilitate flights from Chicago to Texas.
  • Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) is one of the main airports that serve the metropolis of Chicago.  The Airport serves as a base for Frontiers Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which offer flights from Chicago to Texas.
  • Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is one of the main airports that serve Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, and North Texas. DFW is a hub for American Airlines and a base for Spirit Airlines. The airlines offer flights from Chicago to Texas.
  • El Paso International Airport (ELP) is one of the primary airports serving the city of El Paso along with Las Cruces and Ciudad Juarez. Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines run at ELP facilitating flights to Texas from Chicago.
  • George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is one of the airports that serve the metropolitan area of Houston. The Airport serves as a hub for United Airlines and a base for Spirit Airlines, which offers flights to Texas from Chicago.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Chicago to Texas

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Chicago to Texas. 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 Texas? 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.
8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4242 reviews
8.6Crew
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
7.0Food
Airline reviews

Better and more food and drinks. Put msnbc and free speech tv on the news channel selection list.

10.0 ExcellentKevin, Jul 2025MDW - PUJ
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Better and more food and drinks. Put msnbc and free speech tv on the news channel selection list.

after landing, we stay 2 hours on the taxi way before reaching the gate The airline and the crew were good though

I'm not a fan of Southwest's model. I don't like the herding style of boarding.

My flight to Chicago left and landed early. My return flight left two minutes late and arrived 2 minutes late. My seat selections were ideal! There were no snacks going to Chicago and no snacks on the return trip. There are no charging outlets on board.

Multiple delays and gate changes. Arrived at final destination 6 hours late. All rental cars had been taken.

The movies using Southwest WiFi kept pausing and I had to restart multiple times.

One of the crew performed a hilarious skit to accompany the standard instructions. Passengers enjoyed it so much they applauded at the end!

First, my flight was a usual flight nothing exceptional or unexpected. Over all it was a normal, good flight! Second, your questionaire is wholly lacking in the proper options to which one can answer a question. Often on short flights, there is no food let alone entertainment so why isn't that reflected in your questionaire? A simple "not applicable" would cover that issue appropriately but no, your form arbitrarily enters an answer based on the initial assessment which normally isn't factual. Until you provide an accurate means of assessing flights, I'll no longer be completing of these unimpressive and misleading assessements. Thank you!

Easy to book and to get check in and get on and off.

Excellent experience. WiFi worked on this leg of My trip

Once we got in the air the pilot made up some of the time of the delay. So that was really nice.

Excellent flight. Boarding was efficient and departure was on time. Smooth flight with on time arrival. Deplaning was also efficient.

It was delayed instead of departing at 9:20pm, we departed at 11pm… putting us in Columbus after 2am! It was awful. Had I known about the delay, I could have spent some time in the United Lounge… I was starving because I started my journey in Budapest… so I was exhausted and hungry. Plus I had to make new arrangements to be picked up at the airport in Columbus, instead of midnight it was 2:30 am after getting luggage and out of airport. Not feasible. I would have just stayed in Chicago for the night and gotten a morning flight.

It was great, I’m very grateful for the pilots and crew flight attendants for everything.

Evidently, my seat had the only broken TV. I couldn’t plug it in, get it to come on, or watch anything, and of course, no one could fix it while we were on the plane. The service was good and the boarding was quick

I was charged for my daughters bag when I am supposed to receive two free checked bags with my United Explorer card.

The schedule to Moline changed 5 times. The gate changed 6 times. That is a pathetic way to run an airline. No wonder that no one in our company flies on United Express to or from Moline. Changes happen most of the time. I learned my lesson on this trip…never again!

Flight was great. Efficient boarding. Short flight. Early arrival. Friendly flight crew. The entertainment system did not work well. Could not access it until the aircraft reached 10K feet or more. Lots of glitches.

A bit rush for transit. Food and entertainment are not available

Smooth boarding process. Early departure, smooth flight, early arrival. The entertainment package has very good recent movie options. The flight crew were friendly and professional.

3 hour weather delay followed by 1 hour (and counting) maintenance delay. UGH!

After we'd boarded , they canceled the flight. The crew didn't even know , we just all received text messages. Then after they deplaned us , AA was just like "too bad, go F your self, we sure ain't gonna help you"

After a two hour delay, my flight was CANCELLED! No pilot available. Such BS.

Amazing food, great staff, with one noticable detail missing ...but no seat entertainment in any of aircraft ...I am not a fan

I wish American Airlines would change the airline industry by loading the plane back to front instead of front to back. Planes would board so much more smoothly and quickly.

I have long legs, my foot was out in the aisle and when a flight attendant came walking by and I didn't notice, instead of saying "excuse me" or anything like that, she kicked my foot. Extremely rude

Excellent! The gate agents were kind enough to rebook me on an earlier flight saving me from a 6 hour layover. Even my luggage made it despite the fact that the connection was technically too narrow. The flight itself was very comfortable, roomy, and clean. Plenty of space for my carryon items with plugs to charge my phone. After a long international flight of 14 hours, this was an excellent way to end my travels!

Great experience. Flight boarded easily. Departed early. Smooth flight. Great arrival in DC--almost no taxing! Almost direct to gate from runway. Crew was terrific. Same cookies and beverages in main cabin. I did not use the entertainment system on this flight.

Most of the delay was due to weather which is not what was at issue here. One delay was due to a missing flashlight and in the end the flashlight was actually found on the plane. The entertainment system is very limited. Live TV options offer only a few channels that are not very appealing. Boarding and deplaning are always difficult. It just takes too much time to get on and off the plane. On the plus side, I missed my connecting flight, but was easily able to book a later flight from the app while enroute.

You were more on time than United. I'm so over united delays.

No Tumberlence smooth flight. Try to change the menu on Snacks.

For the minimalist experience, it is really a great ride-- feels a little like public transport i guess

I didn't order food. I requested a Tomato juice and was given a boody mary mix. The serve needs to warn the customer what their given. It wasn't a huge deal, but I wasted $4.50.

EVERYTHING! It was so bad that I will be filing a claim for reimbursement for my seat as I could not fully sit in it due to an obese person being next to me and spilling over into my "space." And my personal item in the overhead been got crushed between two suitcases, so now my business laptop has been damaged beyond repair. Also, it was expensive! Since you pay for EVERYTHING, the cost of the trip was probably more than if you I used an airline that was not discounted. I will NEVER fly Spirit Airlines again!

One of worst experienc my family have every had with this airline. I was informed my Kayak that my flight was delayed and that my family will not make it to houston for our connecting flight. I contacted Spirit customer service to get my family on a later flight due to the delay in Vagas and them not making their connecting flight. The customer rep keep telling me that the flight from vagas is on time and not delayed. She even make to go to the spirit app on my phone and show me how to look up weather or not the flight was delayed. The app showed "on time" 20 minutes later when my family arrived at the airport for their flight, they were told that the flight was delayed and she will not make her connecting flight. I call spirit airline customer support again that night and spoke to another rep who apologize for his collegue and he told me that my family will receive a credit for this, this was on Saturday I still have not received the credit or an email letting me know when I will be credited for this inconvenience. This is not good business and it need to be fixed.

It was very bad it got delayed by 2 hours.Never going to travel with spirit airlines in future.

Flight delayed over 3 or 4 hours because no captain to fly plane. I couldn’t make a connection and had to wait 9 hours for another flight. Had to fly red eye flight. Sucks

I wanted to upgrade my seat because I’m 6’2 and never have enough leg room for my comfort. They upgraded my seat for free putting me in an emergency exit seat. I was very comfortable

We had an almost 7 hour flight delay. We left the gate twice and taxi-ed and then returned the gate twice. Finally we got a new flight crew (our third one) and then left the gate to the final time before departing at 6:45pm (original flight time was 12pm). Out of Newark.

The flight times got delayed multiple times due to weather which is understandable, but later the time got prepared 30min. Made to the flight barely but got stressed too much.

Seats were new and comfortable. Staff was fine. Missed my connection due to weather -which wasn’t their fault- but got no help at all. Gate staff sent me to customer service, which was and stayed unstaffed. Sign with QR code directed me to call or chat. Chat was useless. Call was returned after an hour. No itinerary offered by Frontier could get me home in less than 30 hours. Rebooked with another airline and got a partial refund that came to about 10 percent of what I paid to get home.

Finally a Frontier on time and efficient. I've had problems before with your airline, but this time everything went fine.

The experience was good. No frills but I got there safe and sound and on time.

Great for the price. No wifi or entertainment, but gate agents and crew were fantastic and we boarded quickly and left on time.

sluggish boarding and arrival procedures, fake nice flight attendants, and lots of delays.

Disaster. They lied every step of the way. We ended up being delayed due to crew and then allegedly abandoned the flight because of a curfew at LGA. No rebooking to LGA at any reasonable time. No hotel. No meal vouchers. Had to sleep in the airport and fly to Newark instead. Will never fly Frontier again.

What I expected, nickeled and dined and a frontier flight attendant loudly complained about her job and lack of communication as she headed to the gate on her cell phone. Not professional.

As every law enforcement agency I could imagine surrounded the plane and we didn’t disembark for 2 hours and then had to stick around for another hour to go get our personal belongings after leaving them behind and being bused away from the plane, it was scary and inconvenient. We were given no information as to why this was happening. Lack of communication with passengers was disappointing.

After boarding and un-boarding twice over 6+hours, the flight was canceled.

Severe turbulence. Captain never came on to reassure passengers after things settled down.

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