Flights from Minneapolis to Chicago

• The shortest flight distance between Minneapolis and Chicago is 349 miles.
• Northwest Airlines, Compass Airlines, UNITED, Northwest Airlink, Continental Airlines, Air Greenland, ExpressJet Airlines, Air Canada offer flights from Minneapolis, MN to Chicago, IL.
• The shortest flight between MSP and MDW takes about 63 minutes.
• The average flight time from Minneapolis, MN to Chicago, IL takes about 64 minutes.
• In 2009, there were 8 airline companies operating between Minneapolis and Chicago.
• The newest aircraft servicing MSP to MDW in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink operate the shortest flights from Minneapolis to Chicago.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from MSP to MDW for ExpressJet Airlines is the EMB-145 built by Embraer with 50 seats.
• There were 176,593 passengers that flew from Minneapolis to Chicago in 2009.
• 337,178 seats were available on flights from MSP to MDW in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 176,593 passengers flew on all flights from MSP to MDW that year.
• Northwest Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Minneapolis to Chicago.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Minneapolis to Chicago in 2009 was 50.41%.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Minneapolis, MN to Chicago, IL in 2009 was Air Canada's A320-1/2 from Airbus Industrie which started flying in 1990.
• Flight #1540, operated by Northwest Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 15 minutes average delay between flights from Minneapolis to Chicago.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from MSP to MDW using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• Northwest Airlines carried a total of 117,368 passengers from MSP to MDW in 2009.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Minneapolis and Chicago from Northwest Airlines is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 182 seats.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)