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Cheapest round-trip
$196
Typical prices: $170-$307
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Cheapest non-stop
$196
Typical prices: $166-$313
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DFW - ORD • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Dallas to Chicago (DFW-CHI)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Dallas to Chicago 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 Dallas to Chicago

Tue, Aug 4 - Sat, Aug 8
Frontier Logo
7:35 am - 6:17 am
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ORD
22h 42m
1 stop
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9:20 am - 12:12 pm
ORD
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DFW
2h 52mnonstop
$196Frontier
Wed, Jul 22 - Wed, Jul 29
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6:19 am - 10:03 pm
DFW
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MDW
15h 44m
1 stop
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4:45 pm - 7:20 pm
MDW
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DFW
2h 35mnonstop
$196Frontier
Tue, Oct 20 - Wed, Oct 21
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9:50 pm - 12:24 am
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ORD
2h 34mnonstop
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1:52 pm - 4:38 pm
ORD
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DFW
2h 46mnonstop
$197Frontier
Tue, Jul 28 - Tue, Aug 11
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2:30 pm - 4:51 pm
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MDW
2h 21mnonstop
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5:46 pm - 8:20 pm
MDW
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DFW
2h 34mnonstop
$197Frontier
Wed, Jul 22 - Sat, Sep 12
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1:25 pm - 4:08 pm
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ORD
2h 43mnonstop
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1:22 pm - 4:08 pm
ORD
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DFW
2h 46mnonstop
$198Frontier
Tue, Jul 21 - Mon, Sep 14
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2:30 pm - 4:51 pm
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2h 21mnonstop
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1:02 pm - 3:35 pm
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2h 33mnonstop
$198Frontier
Thu, Aug 27 - Mon, Aug 31
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5:31 pm - 8:15 pm
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ORD
2h 44mnonstop
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9:20 am - 12:12 pm
ORD
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DFW
2h 52mnonstop
$199Frontier
Sat, Aug 8 - Tue, Aug 11
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3:01 pm - 5:26 pm
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2h 25mnonstop
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5:46 pm - 8:20 pm
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2h 34mnonstop
$199Frontier
Sat, Aug 1 - Thu, Aug 6
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4:56 pm - 10:37 am
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17h 41m
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11:37 am - 9:23 pm
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9h 46m
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$271Multiple Airlines
Thu, Aug 6 - Mon, Aug 10
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10:23 pm - 8:34 pm
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22h 11m
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Dallas to Chicago flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago departing in August.

What is the cheapest Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago flight route?

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

The cheapest return flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago costs $88 on the route between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW) and Chicago Midway Airport (MDW). Over the past month, this route was, on average, 38% cheaper than other Dallas/Fort Worth Airport-Chicago routes. The most popular route is between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW) and Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport (ORD).

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

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

For Dallas to Chicago, Thursday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Sunday is the most expensive. Flying from Chicago back to Dallas, the best deals are generally found on Friday, with Monday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago, 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago is November, where tickets cost $147 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $384 and $309 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago?

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 $254 on average.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago, 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 36% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 10 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Dallas to Chicago

 
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Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dallas to Chicago based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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Flights from Dallas to Chicago: the best tips from KAYAK users' own experiences

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Dallas to Chicago 
DeepaFlew with American Airlines
DFW
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ORD
Apr 2026
The TSA precheck feature is useful, and the security checkpoint to gate walk is around 20 mins, not too bad.
RickyFlew with Spirit Airlines
DFW
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ORD
Mar 2024
Uber pickup is in terminal 2 doors 2D/2E not available in terminal 1

FAQs for booking Dallas to Chicago flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago?

    In the last 5 days, the lowest price for a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago was $98 for a one-way ticket and $196 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Dallas and Chicago?

    A passport is not required to fly from Dallas to Chicago.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Dallas to Chicago?

    Dallas is served by only 1 airport and there are 2 airports in Chicago. You will leave Dallas from Dallas/Fort Worth and you will be arriving in Chicago at one of these airports: Chicago Midway or Chicago O'Hare Intl.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Dallas to Chicago?

    American Airlines, JetBlue, British Airways, and Iberia offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Dallas to Chicago flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Dallas to Chicago?

    The Boeing 737-800 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Dallas to Chicago flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Dallas to Chicago?

    SkyTeam, Star Alliance, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Dallas and Chicago, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Dallas to Chicago?

    There are nonstop flights from Dallas to Chicago on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Dallas to Chicago, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Dallas to Chicago are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $308 and an overall rating of 7.9, Southwest is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $176 and an overall rating of 7.8.

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

    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 Dallas to Chicago.

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

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

    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 with an airline and back to Dallas with another airline.

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

    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 from Dallas 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $142 or less one-way and $245 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Dallas to Chicago?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago.
Find which airlines fly direct from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Chicago, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago

Monday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

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Tuesday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Wednesday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Thursday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Friday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Saturday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Sunday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

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Direct returns

Chicago to Dallas/Fort Worth

Monday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Tuesday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Wednesday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Thursday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Friday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Saturday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

Sunday

American Airlines,Frontier,United Airlines

American Airlines,Frontier, +1 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Dallas to Chicago

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Dallas 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Dallas to Chicago? 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 4252 reviews
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
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Flight was delayed over 3 hours. Planes were dirty. Staff indifferent. And they serve vegan pretzels as snacks.

2.0 MediocreMatthew, Jun 2026
CVG - MDW
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Flight was delayed over 3 hours. Planes were dirty. Staff indifferent. And they serve vegan pretzels as snacks.

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

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

no service at all due to turbulence. they should've at least given us snacks, there were only 10 people on the entire flight.

For the first time in a long time, the Wi-Fi actually worked the entire flight! The flight crew was amazing as usual.

Great flight. I didn't get a drink because I was asleep whole on the flight.

Love them will get a Southwest card to track my points and keep flying with them. My family and I were pleased with the services.

WiFi was not working and didn’t have a beverage service

All good except once again bags took an hour at Midway Airport Happens all the time. Ridiculous

The seats were comfortable, and the boarding process was pretty smooth.

I’ve flown Contour on 4 different flights in the last couple weeks and every one of the flights were significantly delayed. Like over 2 hours delayed. 3 of the 4 were due to maintenance and one was weather, which is beyond their control. If this continues, I will not fly them anymore. It makes me concerned that they don’t have great maintenance practices. The planes are very old and worn out and the interiors need improvement. I do like the amount of space you have between seats for legroom. They also started charging for bags recently, which I think the did when they partnered up with American Airlines as a codeshare partner. American is also a disaster of an airline so I wish they had some agreement with Delta. I am glad they offer a major airline parternership though. That is certainly giving people more opportunities. I won’t fly Contour unless they have a direct flight to where I am going. If I have to connect then I am going to take Delta. The bus at the DFW airport to get on and off the aircraft is a pain and adds so much extra time to your travel experience. I hope this is temporary while they are building a new terminal, but I don’t know.

Short flight so no entertainment and none expected or appropriate. Everyone I dealt with was professional and helpful. A good experience.

Love it. No Frills but better than Spirit No Frills. It's like a simple luxury private plane especially if you've got five or six people on it because then you probably got your own section of the plane.

All the staff were amazing! The flight was quick, everything went smoothly, I have nothing but good things to say about this flight. Thank you Contour!

It was easy, efficient from start to finish. The flight attendant was amazing. Smooth ride. It was just perfect.

This was my first time flying with Contour and the Greenbrier Valley Airport. It both were excellent and the price couldn’t be beat!

I felt like a sardine in my seat. We all did. The plane was so small that I hit my head on the roof when I stood up from my seat. The service was good and the crew were nice.

Flight was cancelled, but they got him on an earlier delayed rescheduled one. Arrived Chicago 2 hours later than expected but long layover so it worked.

It’s the only flight connecting Marion to Chicago, I do appreciate that it was available!

The flight was delayed and then less than 30 mins before boarding they cancelled the flight when clearly they had to have known earlier that they were going to have to cancel. There was only one person there available to talk to and all he could do was tell us to call reservations our self. Due to high call volume I waited 2 hours to even get rebooked on a flight to a different city where I would still have to drive 1 hr to my destination, only option for me. While waiting to talk to reservations people were getting emails with new flight info and the flights were days out and sone even a week out. . I did not get compensated in anyway after having spent all day at the airpot, not even a food voucher. Very disappointed, terrible experience.

Awful. Delayed flights, missed connection to Toronto. Hotel vouchers were for already booked hotels x3. Giant waste of my time

Boarded early, left early, arrived 40 mins early! A win win for me!

Great flight. Got to watch a movie. Smooth flight and early arrival at ORD.

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

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.

Sucks ! All three flights I was on this trip were delayed.

When I got our tickets, my husband and I were easily able to get seats together (including a window seat). When we checked in at the airport all the seats were reset and we had to pick new ones, so we couldn’t sit together because there were only middle seats! Ugh that’s the worst. We were back so far we had to check our carry ons which was annoying because I bring an expensive camera that I don’t/cant check so I had to reorganize my items. Once we were seated on the plane we had to wait an hour to take off and they said there was some weather/air traffic in Denver but it was unclear. The lady I sat next to complained that our seats didn’t go back and we both got free complimentary snack boxes which were quite good. I wasn’t going to say anything about the seats, they were the typical uncomfortable kind. It would have been fine if the 2 hr flight hadn’t turned into 3 hrs. Not the best flight but also not the worst.

The delays (5 hrs) were a comedy of errors, and the multiple safety issues encountered were very concerning.

Crew is way too many times on the intercom re explaining the same thing

I don't understand why they can't have charging ports on seats in 2023. They only offer it as a 'premium seat' service. It's ridiculous

I love the e fact that the staff communicated swiftly when my flight was delayed and gate number changed

Delayed flight more than I hour. When boarding we spent some additional time on the plane before takeoff ....

They lost my baggage and I am still struggling to the information and update

It was good, the staff was great, and the food, was as usual, tea and biscuit. Bathroom was clean, and the plane was clean as well.

As a first class customer, there was no power the entire flight which limited my ability to work. I find this unacceptable. The first 11 rows on the left side of the plan were out. I was only offered the option to charge my phone which was not the issue because my laptop was out of power. I asked if there was anything that can be done for me, and the answer was, "no". I was not offered any type of compensation for this AA problem which caused me unnecessary stress due to inability to address business issues on an already challenging travel day. Flight attendants tried to reset the power once but that was the extent of their support. Very disappointing for the lack of expected services on a flight. Please contact me with customer focused response to this complaint.

Update to handle the delay was very bad, crews no smiles or welcome or thanks. Don’t care attitude

3hour delay In the last 3 months i had 3 flights and 2 of these had a more than 2:40 hrs delayed

We received a flight delay notification over 24 hours before the flight, but it seems American didn't do anything in that timeframe to get the flight back on schedule. Gate agents were still determining when our plane would arrive. Didn't have catering ready to go when our plane did arrive. Flight attendant timeout before we left. There was a flight attendant on board who could work the flight (trained on that aricraft type and was within hours), however American chose to wait for a backup to arrive, which delay the flight further.

Our flight was delayed by 18 hours. Poor accommodations made and no apology.

Flight was fine. It took an unusually long time to have baggage delivered to the carousel in ORD.

Gate not determined until I got to the airport - hard to plan the trip to the airport.

Very well recently! Frontier is improving and less harrassing customer on luggages! Positive!

Terrible. The canceled my entire flight when I requested a refund for a trip frontier canceled trip one way.

i was unable to check in the flight. refund requested

We were delayed three times ,and that destroyed my plans, and reservations

Book with frontier airlines with the mentality that they'll cancel your flight, kick you off and lose your luggage. Anything besides that is a win. Compare prices with other airlines (to include luggage) and if frontier is still worth it, book it but know all of their policies.

Would be great if Frontier can Assign Seats together under one PNR

Boarding was organized and flight was on time. Overall very satisfied with my flight.

The boarding gate was in Terminal D, but the Frontier counter was in Terminal E. So I had to move back and forth between terminals to check in my luggage. This was the worst experience that I had in terms of flights.

I was singled out for being a Latina flying solo and the attendants took me out of line to put my luggage in the personal item bin to see if it would fly. Keep In mind I had just flown with the same luggage with no problem not even 5 days ago. The tag was sticking out a bit and the attendant was belligerent about charging me $100. I could not refuse because I didn’t wanna cause a scene. But today I felt targeted and embarrassed. I went online and found out that this happens a lot with this airline and to many minority women.

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Flights$1,2872h 21m
Trains$28422h 06m