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American LAX to Chicago $80 round trip

American Airlines has round trip flights between LAX and ORD Chicago for as low as $80.20 round trip. Fly American Airlines SFO-ORD for $116.20 round trip. These are nonstop flights.

American Airlines Chicago – Los Angeles Sep 8 – Sep 16

ORD-LAX $80 AA

How to find matching fares on major alliances for low cost carrier sales

When I see a blog post about limited time sales from Frontier, Jet Blue, Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines, I go to Google Flights to see if there are matching fares from major airlines.

In this case, American Airlines has a lower fare at $80.20 for ORD-LAX round trip than Spirit Airlines $89 round trip fare for these dates, but Spirit has an even lower $71 fare for Sep 8-15 travel.

Are United or Delta matching on LAX-ORD route?

Finding matching fares from major carriers is a matter of filtering search results to show only Oneworld, Star Alliance or SkyTeam fares.

Here is a Google Flights search filter showing Star Alliance fares for ORD-LAX route. I set the airline filter to Star Alliance and set the search for one way fares.

Google Flights Star Alliance filter

September 11, my search date has a low $79 fare. Only one other date, Sep 21 has a lower $59 fare. I check United.com and see a $58.10 one-way fare for ORD-LAX.

Reverse the cities and check LAX-ORD one-way flights and see Oct 6 has a $69 flight. Check United .com and find $68.10 fare. If the dates work, then this is a $126.20 round trip on United for ORD-LAX.

Check Skyteam Alliance flights and see the lowest one-way fare is $137. Skyteam is not matching at this time.

American Airlines LAX-ORD or ORD-LAX for $80 round trip is a great fare with few departure dates. $109 round trip fares are available on many dates with American Airlines.

2 Comments

  • Mike August 18, 2015

    Hmm. How many RTs fro zero to EXP?

  • Ric Garrido August 19, 2015

    @Mike – for me, about 9 round trips LAX-ORD at 3,488 miles each for $720 to reach 30,000 EQM by October 9 for an EXP challenge.

    Instead, I am flying SNA-CPH-LAX and Bergen, Norway to SFO 2x for $1,500 in September.

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