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Cheap Flights from Missoula to Chicago (MSO-CHI)

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

Fri, Sep 26 - Sun, Sep 28
American Airlines Logo
12:50 pm - 5:21 pmMSO-ORD
3h 31mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
8:36 pm - 11:18 pmORD-MSO
3h 42mnonstop
$191American Airlines
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Fri, Sep 26 - Mon, Sep 29
American Airlines Logo
1:51 pm - 11:59 pmMSO-ORD
9h 08m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
9:55 am - 12:35 pmORD-MSO
3h 40mnonstop
$201American Airlines
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Wed, Aug 20 - Sun, Aug 24
United Airlines Logo
2:40 pm - 10:42 pmMSO-ORD
7h 02m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
7:15 am - 1:34 pmORD-MSO
7h 19m1 stop
$211United Airlines
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Thu, Aug 7 - Mon, Aug 11
United Airlines Logo
12:40 pm - 5:04 pmMSO-ORD
3h 24mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
8:50 am - 11:38 amORD-MSO
3h 48mnonstop
$220United Airlines
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Fri, Aug 8 - Mon, Aug 11
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9:54 pm - 6:03 amMSO-ORD
7h 09m1 stop
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7:08 am - 3:30 pmORD-MSO
9h 22m1 stop
Fri, Aug 22 - Sun, Aug 24
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9:47 pm - 11:43 amMSO-ORD
12h 56m1 stop
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7:09 pm - 5:31 pmORD-MSO
23h 22m2 stops
Fri, Sep 26 - Sun, Sep 28
Alaska Airlines Logo
2:14 pm - 10:07 pmMSO-ORD
6h 53m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
8:00 am - 3:18 pmORD-MSO
8h 18m1 stop
$269Alaska Airlines
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Fri, Sep 26 - Mon, Sep 29
Delta Logo
3:33 pm - 9:21 pmMSO-ORD
4h 48m1 stop
Delta Logo
3:35 pm - 12:18 amORD-MSO
9h 43m2 stops
$278Delta
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Wed, Aug 6 - Mon, Aug 11
Delta Logo
5:30 am - 11:53 amMSO-ORD
5h 23m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:40 pm - 11:48 pmORD-MSO
7h 08m1 stop
$313Delta
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Thu, Sep 18 - Mon, Sep 22
Alaska Airlines Logo
1:12 pm - 7:03 amMSO-ORD
16h 51m2 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
6:20 am - 3:18 pmORD-MSO
9h 58m1 stop
$348Alaska Airlines
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Expert advice for your flight from Missoula to Chicago

 
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Upgrade to Economy Plus for up to six inches more legroom, enhancing comfort on medium-haul flights.


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Consider Main Cabin Extra for early boarding and complimentary drinks, enhancing comfort on medium-haul flights.


Download the American Airlines app for access to movies and TV shows on flights without seatback screens.

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KAYAK's insights & trends for Missoula to Chicago flights

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

What is the cheapest Missoula to Chicago flight route?

The cheapest price for flight routes found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from Missoula to Chicago.

Our data shows that the cheapest route for a return flight from Missoula to Chicago cost $249 and was between Missoula (MSO) and Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport (ORD). On average, the best prices are found if you fly this route. The average price for a return flight for this route is $249.

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

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

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

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Missoula 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 Missoula to Chicago is November, where tickets cost $268 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are February and January, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $458 and $436 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Missoula 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.

No, with an average price for the route of $557, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Missoula 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 Missoula 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 Missoula to Chicago, you should book around 5 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonMarch
High seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$103
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 11% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 1% increase in price.
Flight from Missoula to Chicago O'Hare Airport

When to book flights from Missoula to Chicago

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Missoula to Chicago 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 flights from Missoula to Chicago

  • What is the cheapest flight from Missoula to Chicago?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Missoula to Chicago was $103 for a one-way ticket and $191 for a round-trip.

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

    No

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

    On your way to Chicago, you’ll fly out from Missoula Johnson-Bell Field. You’ll be landing in one of Chicago’s 2 airports: Chicago Midway or Chicago O'Hare Intl.

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

    American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and Delta offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Missoula to Chicago flight route.

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

    The Embraer 175 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Missoula to Chicago flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Missoula to Chicago?

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

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

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

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

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Missoula to Chicago are Delta and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $345 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $403 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Missoula 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 Missoula to Chicago.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Chicago from Missoula 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 Missoula 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 Missoula with another airline.

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

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $219 or less one-way and $364 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Missoula to Chicago?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Missoula Johnson-Bell Field to Chicago.
Find which airlines fly direct from Missoula Johnson-Bell Field Airport to Chicago, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Missoula Johnson-Bell Field to Chicago

Monday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Tuesday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Wednesday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Thursday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Friday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Saturday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Sunday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

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Direct returns

Chicago to Missoula Johnson-Bell Field

Monday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Tuesday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Wednesday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Thursday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Friday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Saturday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

Sunday

American Airlines, United Airlines

American Airlines, United Airlines

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Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from Missoula to Chicago

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Missoula 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 Missoula 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
7.1Entertainment
7.1Food
7.8Comfort
8.1Boarding
8.5Crew
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Flight was on time. Staff was polite and efficient. The snacks were good - only an hour and a half flight. No entertainment but didn't expect that. We brought our own things to do.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jul 2025IDA - SEA
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Flight was on time. Staff was polite and efficient. The snacks were good - only an hour and a half flight. No entertainment but didn't expect that. We brought our own things to do.

Flight was great. Crew was excellent! Would fly with them anytime.

We usually enjoy flying Alaska Airlines. However this time we had multiple negative experiences. We were surprised that they rejected our bags because of a new “50 minute cutoff” but they did not tell us about it beforehand and also did not tell us that it was new. They also lost two of our car seats. The one car seat that was returned to us was half out of its bag and half of it was wet. It was not raining so they must have thrown it in a puddle?! I saw at least 4 other car seats on the carousel in the same condition. We purchased two travel car seats for this trip that were pretty expensive and they lost them. We have yet to receive any word or compensation from our “claim.”

There was a delay, then we were boarded, then deboarded, then waited another hour for a new flight, then boarded again and arrived 2 hours later than expected while traveling with 3 young children.

I don't like that this survey shows Good for everything. Everything was not Good. I didn't eat any of the food. I didnt' have any entertainment. You need to have a NA choice. My flight was satisfactory until I debarked the plane and fell on the Jetway. The jetway sections had a slight inclined edge, which I tripped on. I was near the plane's exit door, but neither of the flight attendants helped me get up. I was helped by two other passengers. Also, I explained to the counter staff about falling and no one seemed to understand what I was telling them. I said I fell on the ramp, which was not the correct term. The passenger who was sitting next to me on the plane did a better job of explaining to your staff where I fell and that I was in a lot of pain. I also wanted to report the incident and no one helped with that. I was then offered a wheelchair. The passenger who helped me stayed with me until the wheelchair arrived. I asked the wheelchair attendant if there was anyone I could report the incident to and he said there was no one. Really???? My daughter picked me up at the door. I tipped the attendant for his service from the Alaska counter to her car. Before leaving the property, my daughter called the airport to report the incident. We were advised to go to the to a hospital ER. A Cat Scan showed I broke the 6th rib on the right side. My daughter was sent paperwork to complete from the agent with whom she spoke before we left the airport.

As always to close confinement for passengers not in upgrades. I like that you still get carry on and personal bag.

Friendly staff, everything went smoothly. Gluten free snacks would would be the cherry on top!

It was fine. 2 hour delay due to mechanical issue. I understand issues will occur, just wish instead of Capt repeatedly telling us we will be getting off the ground “momentarily” they would just be honest and either say they have no idea-or it’s going to be a few hours! All in all FAs are usually pretty nice :)

Way too warm for that length of flight!! If the pretzel bag gets any smaller, there won't even be any pretzels to eat!! Crew didn't talk. $99 just for an aisle seat is ludicrous!! Probably won't fly Alaska again.

Close boarding too early we’re willing to not let people on flight that could not check in. What ever happened to customer service? Three of us had to fight to get on plane shameful

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

this crew didn't care much. bumping carts into seats more times than i care to remember

Very late arrival at PWM. Late jet getting to ATL. Equipment problem with aircraft - could not get enough water onto plane., Another delay getting FAA approval for flight with bottled H2O. Not the crew’s problem.

Everything was fine except the entertainment was not working for half of the flight.

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.

The crew were very nice. The Chocolate is good and v there’s no entertainment. Thanks

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.

Per usual, flight status, staff courtesy and professionalism were excellent

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