The sector is held by NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FLL Fort Lauderdale to MDW Chicago
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood, the United States, to Midway International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,881 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 54m
- Door to door
- 9h 39m
What FLL to MDW looks like
The FLL to MDW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Fort Lauderdale FLL to Chicago MDW is a medium haul sector of 1,881 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,881 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 54m.
Fort Lauderdale FLL is a major hub in the network held here, 168 scheduled destinations and 340.6 departures a day. Chicago MDW has 208 destinations and 305.1 departures a day.
Chicago is one hour behind of Fort Lauderdale all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on FLL to MDW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLL to MDW | 2.86 | 20 | NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
| MDW to FLL | 3 | 21 | Southwest Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 41 departures a week on FLL to MDW, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 54m block time on FLL to MDW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to FLL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FLL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FLL to MDW in the air, estimated | 174 min | 7h 24m |
| Formalities at MDW | 90 min | 8h 54m |
| Delivery run in Chicago | 45 min | 9h 39m |
| Door to door | 579 min | 9h 39m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for FLL to MDW is 9h 39m.
A courier who leaves Fort Lauderdale at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chicago at about 10:54 local and at the door by 13:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chicago, the last useful departure from Fort Lauderdale is around 13:51 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 37 of them join FLL to MDW.
| Connecting at | FLL to hub, flights a day | Hub to MDW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando MCO | 5 | 6.86 | 1,881 | 4h 42m |
| Indianapolis IND | 1.57 | 2.57 | 1,882 | 4h 42m |
| Tampa TPA | 6.57 | 4.14 | 1,924 | 4h 46m |
| Atlanta ATL | 20.71 | 4.86 | 1,888 | 4h 55m |
| Columbus CMH | 0.86 | 4.71 | 2,023 | 4h 55m |
| Raleigh RDU | 5 | 3.43 | 2,114 | 4h 57m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at FLL in the afternoon actually flies on.
37 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Orlando MCO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a day.
Through MCO the routing covers 1,881 km against the 1,881 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 42m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Indianapolis IND at 4h 42m and Tampa TPA at 4h 46m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Fort Lauderdale, Miami MIA is 34 km away by great circle and carries 230 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Chicago, Chicago ORD is 25 km away by great circle and carries 295 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Fort Lauderdale to Chicago yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for FLL to MDW in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
More pairs through FLL and MDW: Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, Detroit to Fort Lauderdale, Boston to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale to Houston, Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale, Bogota to Fort Lauderdale, New York to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale to Newark.