The sector is held by NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAS Las Vegas to MDW Chicago
Harry Reid International, the United States, to Midway International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,442 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 37m
- Door to door
- 10h 22m
What LAS to MDW looks like
The LAS to MDW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Las Vegas LAS to Chicago MDW is a medium haul sector of 2,442 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,442 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 37m.
Las Vegas LAS is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 642 departures a day. Chicago MDW has 208 destinations and 305.1 departures a day.
Chicago is 2 hours ahead of Las Vegas 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 LAS to MDW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAS to MDW | 7.43 | 52 | NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
| MDW to LAS | 6.71 | 47 | Southwest Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 7.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 99 departures a week on LAS 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 3h 37m block time on LAS 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 LAS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAS to MDW in the air, estimated | 217 min | 8h 07m |
| Formalities at MDW | 90 min | 9h 37m |
| Delivery run in Chicago | 45 min | 10h 22m |
| Door to door | 622 min | 10h 22m |
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 LAS to MDW is 10h 22m.
A courier who leaves Las Vegas at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chicago at about 14:37 local and at the door by 16:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chicago, the last useful departure from Las Vegas is around 10:08 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. 41 of them join LAS to MDW.
| Connecting at | LAS to hub, flights a day | Hub to MDW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City MCI | 7 | 6.86 | 2,479 | 5h 17m |
| Milwaukee MKE | 3.29 | 3.71 | 2,577 | 5h 19m |
| Albuquerque ABQ | 5.45 | 1.14 | 2,582 | 5h 27m |
| Omaha OMA | 3.29 | 4.71 | 2,444 | 5h 30m |
| Denver DEN | 21.86 | 7.14 | 2,446 | 5h 37m |
| St Louis STL | 6.71 | 6.29 | 2,606 | 5h 40m |
With 7.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kansas City MCI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.9 times a day.
Through MCI the routing covers 2,479 km against the 2,442 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 17m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Milwaukee MKE at 5h 19m and Albuquerque ABQ at 5h 27m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 Las Vegas 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 LAS 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 LAS and MDW: San Francisco to Las Vegas, Las Vegas to Atlanta, Seattle to Las Vegas, Las Vegas to Los Angeles, Detroit to Las Vegas, Las Vegas to Phoenix, Las Vegas to San Diego, Houston to Las Vegas.