AirportsSan Francisco

San Francisco to Chicago

🇺🇸SFO🇺🇸ORDSan Francisco International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
2,964 km
1,842 miles
Frequency
283 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
2
United Airlines, American Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
24 min
43 departures

The route

Great circle, 2,964 km
SFOORD2,964 km
2,964 km (1,842 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from San Francisco International Airport on this route are typically 24 minutes late (likely 16 to 36), across 43 departures we tracked between 2026-03-13 and 2026-08-04.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

2 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

1 of 63 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
UA 2056United Airlines23:56not seen yet13

Departure times are local to San Francisco International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured