Great-circle route DFW ↔ MDW. Faint dots are other airports, for geographic context. Download this map — free to reuse with a link back to this page.
Frequencies below are per direction, from our most recent schedule sample.
| Direction | Frequency | Days | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW → MDW Dallas to Chicago |
7/wk | Daily | Frontier Airlines |
| MDW → DFW Chicago to Dallas |
7/wk | Daily | Frontier Airlines |
Where a direction shows “—” we track it as an operating nonstop but hold no schedule sample for it — we would rather show nothing than guess.
In 2025, airlines reported 95,682 passengers on 620 flights between DFW and MDW — about 262 a day — filling 83% of the 115,296 seats flown. Frontier Airlines Inc. carried the most passengers (100%).
Source: US DOT T-100 segment reports — actual airline-reported traffic, scheduled service only, both directions combined. Cargo and charter flights excluded.
Frontier Airlines is the only airline flying the DFW–MDW nonstop.
Recent scheduled departures on this route have used the Airbus A320 NEO.
Aircraft assignments change by season and by time of day.
The distance between Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport is 797 miles, or 1,283 kilometres.
| Great-circle distance | 797 mi |
| Kilometres | 1,283 km |
| Nautical miles | 693 nmi |
Measured airport to airport. The actual track is longer — aircraft follow airways, avoid restricted airspace and route around weather.
Yes. Frontier Airlines flies the route nonstop, with about 14 departures a week across both directions. The route is in our live nonstop dataset, last seeded 2026-07-07.
About 2h 11m in the air. That is a great-circle estimate from the 797-mile distance, not a scheduled block time — an airline's published time will differ by roughly 15 to 45 minutes depending on routing, winds and taxi.
About 7 a week from Dallas to Chicago and 7 a week from Chicago to Dallas, from our most recent schedule sample.
Frontier Airlines.
In 2025, airlines reported 95,682 passengers on 620 scheduled flights between DFW and MDW — about 262 a day — filling 83% of the seats flown. Source: US DOT T-100 segment reports, both directions combined.
Recent scheduled departures have used the Airbus A320 NEO. Assignments change by season and by time of day.
