Flights from Chicago to Minneapolis

• The shortest flight between ORD and MSP takes about 58 minutes.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from ORD to MSP for American Eagle is the EMB-145 built by Embraer with 50 seats.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from ORD to MSP using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• Flight #7173, operated by Northwest Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 38 minutes average delay between flights from Chicago to Minneapolis.
• American Airlines, UNITED, Northwest Airlines operate the shortest flights from Chicago to Minneapolis.
• There were 799,602 passengers that flew from Chicago to Minneapolis in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 10 airline companies operating between Chicago and Minneapolis.
• The average flight time from Chicago, IL to Minneapolis, MN takes about 60 minutes.
• UNITED offers the shortest flight times from Chicago to Minneapolis.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Chicago, IL to Minneapolis, MN in 2009 was American Airlines' MD-80 from Mcdonnell Douglas which started flying in 1990.
• 1,201,928 seats were available on flights from ORD to MSP in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 799,602 passengers flew on all flights from ORD to MSP that year.
• UNITED carried a total of 315,082 passengers from ORD to MSP in 2009.
• UNITED, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Shuttle America, Compass Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Skywest Air, American Eagle, ExpressJet Airlines, Northwest Airlink offer flights from Chicago, IL to Minneapolis, MN.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Chicago and Minneapolis from UNITED is the B767-3/R built by Boeing with 213 seats.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Chicago to Minneapolis in 2009 was 65.2%.
• The newest aircraft servicing ORD to MSP in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• The shortest flight distance between Chicago and Minneapolis is 334 miles.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)