Private Jet from Minneapolis, US (MSP) to Chicago, US (MDW)

Private jet charter from Minneapolis to Chicago

The route from Minneapolis (MSP) to Chicago (MDW) covers approximately 560 km, with a median block time of 1h 11m on flights we actually tracked.

134 private flights from Minneapolis to Chicago were tracked over the last 12 months — around 11 a month, a steady but not saturated sector.

Median block time on tracked flights is 1h 11m, about 31 minutes longer than a straight distance-and-cruise-speed estimate — taxi, routing and traffic flow account for the difference.

Traffic is strongly seasonal — July carried 20 flights against 3 in February, a 6.7× swing. Expect tighter availability and firmer quotes at the peak.

The Cessna Citation Latitude dominates the route, accounting for 31% of tracked movements, followed by the Embraer Phenom 300 and the Bombardier Challenger 350 — a useful sanity check when a broker offers you something much larger or much older.

Flying back from Chicago is 13 minutes slower: 1h 24m against 1h 11m on this direction, measured on tracked flights. The headwind sits on the return leg here, which is why the outbound reads shorter. Plan a there-and-back with different block times, not one figure doubled — the Chicago to Minneapolis leg has its own page with its own numbers.

The smallest cabin that covers 560 km without a fuel stop is the very light jet at $1,500-4,500 an hour, and the type most often quoted here is the Bombardier Challenger 350. How the hourly rate turns into a total is set out in the private jet cost guide, and if the dates are loose it is worth checking empty leg flights on this direction first.