Houston to Traverse City flight

Flights from Houston to Traverse City start at €178.32 and take 6h 5m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Houston to Traverse City starts at €178.32 and takes 6h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,931 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 5mDoor to door
  • 2h 55mMoving
  • €197.79 to €466.24From
  • 06:04 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 475.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 4 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€197.79 to €466.24 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €466.24Fri18
  2. about €465.06Sat19
  3. about €334.08Sun20
  4. about €291.01Mon21
  5. about €226.70Tue22
  6. about €292.78Wed23
  7. about €338.80Thu24
  8. about €254.43Fri25
  9. about €255.61Sat26
  10. about €225.52Sun27
  11. about €197.79Mon28
  12. about €226.11Tue29
  13. about €212.54Wed30
  14. about €268.59Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 4 October 2026

Cheapest€178.32
  1. American Airlines AA391007:302h 38m10:08Houston IAHChicago ORD
  2. American Airlines AA449311:1654m13:10Chicago ORDTraverse City TVC

Changes at Chicago, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 50mCO2 475.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€216.08
  1. SkyWest SW295206:042h 55m09:59Houston IAHTraverse City TVC

Door to door 6h 5mCO2 475.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
SkyWest€183.046h 1m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • SkyWest

The flight gets you into Traverse City. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Traverse City for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Houston to Traverse City

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €178.9190 days
  2. €130.5360 days
  3. €168.2945 days
  4. €161.2130 days
  5. €247.9421 days
  6. €268.5914 days
  7. €338.807 days
  8. €334.083 days
  9. €466.241 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €130.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 257 percent. The dearest point is €466.24, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €225.52Sun
  2. €197.79Mon
  3. €226.11Tue
  4. €212.54Wed
  5. €268.59Thu
  6. €254.43Fri
  7. €255.61Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Houston

Air
  • IAH
  • HOU

Traverse City

Air
  • TVC
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,931 km against 1,874 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Detroit, Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Houston at 06:04 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Houston to Traverse City

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Houston to Traverse City take?

The Flight from Houston to Traverse City takes 6h 5m door to door, of which 2h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 1,931 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Houston to Traverse City cost?

The Flight from Houston to Traverse City starts at €178.32 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €246.17. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Houston to Traverse City?

1 operators run the Flight from Houston to Traverse City: SkyWest. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Houston to Traverse City use?

The Flight from Houston to Traverse City leaves from Houston IAH and arrives at Traverse City TVC. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Houston to Traverse City?

Fares for the Flight from Houston to Traverse City bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €130.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 257 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Houston to Traverse City produce?

The Flight from Houston to Traverse City produces about 475.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1931 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Houston to Traverse City on 17 September 2026: 1931 km of route against 1874 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €178.32, and 6h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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