Flights from Orange County to Chicago

• American Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Orange County to Chicago.
• American Airlines, UNITED offer flights from Orange County, CA to Chicago, IL.
• The shortest flight between SNA and ORD takes about 197 minutes.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Orange County to Chicago in 2009 was 80.16%.
• UNITED, American Airlines operate the shortest flights from Orange County to Chicago.
• The newest aircraft servicing SNA to ORD in 2009 was American Airlines' B737-8 from Boeing. The B737-8 started flying in 1998.
• There were 282,974 passengers that flew from Orange County to Chicago in 2009.
• UNITED operated flights from SNA to ORD using 3 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from SNA to ORD for UNITED is the A319 built by Airbus Industrie with 120 seats.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Orange County and Chicago from American Airlines is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 187 seats.
• The shortest flight distance between Orange County and Chicago is 1726 miles.
• 347,519 seats were available on flights from SNA to ORD in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 282,974 passengers flew on all flights from SNA to ORD that year.
• American Airlines carried a total of 143,962 passengers from SNA to ORD in 2009.
• The average flight time from Orange County, CA to Chicago, IL takes about 200 minutes.
• In 2009, there were 2 airline companies operating between Orange County and Chicago.
• Flight #360, operated by American Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 9 minutes average delay between flights from Orange County to Chicago.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Orange County, CA to Chicago, IL in 2009 was American Airlines' B757-2 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)