Flights from Chicago to Houston

• Continental Airlines operated flights from ORD to IAH using 5 types of aircraft in 2009.
• American Eagle offers the shortest flight times from Chicago to Houston.
• The newest aircraft servicing ORD to IAH in 2009 was Shuttle America's EMB-170 from Embraer. The EMB-170 started flying in 2004.
• The average flight time from Chicago, IL to Houston, TX takes about 132 minutes.
• Continental Airlines carried a total of 292,072 passengers from ORD to IAH in 2009.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Chicago, IL to Houston, TX in 2009 was Air France's B747C from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Chicago and Houston from UNITED is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 182 seats.
• There were 491,994 passengers that flew from Chicago to Houston in 2009.
• The shortest flight between ORD and IAH takes about 128 minutes.
• 600,070 seats were available on flights from ORD to IAH in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 491,994 passengers flew on all flights from ORD to IAH that year.
• Flight #6534, operated by Skywest Air, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 74 minutes average delay between flights from Chicago to Houston.
• The shortest flight distance between Chicago and Houston is 925 miles.
• In 2009, there were 10 airline companies operating between Chicago and Houston.
• Continental Airlines, American Airlines, UNITED, Shuttle America, American Eagle, ExpressJet Airlines, Skywest Air, go Operated by Mesa Airlines, Chautauqua Airlines, Air France offer flights from Chicago, IL to Houston, TX.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Chicago to Houston in 2009 was 81.41%.
• ExpressJet Airlines, UNITED, American Airlines, American Eagle, Continental Airlines, go Operated by Mesa Airlines, Skywest Air operate the shortest flights from Chicago to Houston.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)