South Bend to Detroit flight

Flights from South Bend to Detroit start at €40.26 and take 3h 57m at their fastest.

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Looking south from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance, Detroit, Mich. Photo shows Woodward Ave. extending south from Warren. 1 transparency : color.

The Flights from South Bend to Detroit starts at €40.26 and takes 3h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 283 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 18 September 2026Priced for 9 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 57mDoor to door
  • 47mMoving
  • €39.08 to €78.02From
  • 06:36 to 06:36First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 69.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 9 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€39.08 to €78.02 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 €78.02Sat19
  2. about €56.78Sun20
  3. about €54.42Mon21
  4. about €40.85Tue22
  5. about €50.29Wed23
  6. about €57.37Thu24
  7. about €44.98Fri25
  8. about €44.98Sat26
  9. about €40.85Sun27
  10. about €42.03Mon28
  11. about €46.16Tue29
  12. about €39.08Wed30
  13. about €47.34Thu1
  14. about €43.80Fri2

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 9 October 2026

No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.

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€34.363h 56m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • SkyWest

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

A hotel room

A room in Detroit for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Detroit and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book South Bend to Detroit

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

  1. €37.3190 days
  2. €23.4460 days
  3. €22.3445 days
  4. €28.3930 days
  5. €28.3921 days
  6. €30.0414 days
  7. €43.247 days
  8. €38.843 days
  9. €69.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €22.34.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 212 percent. The dearest point is €69.64, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €40.85Sun
  2. €34.44Mon
  3. €32.79Tue
  4. €37.74Wed
  5. €44.34Thu
  6. €30.04Fri
  7. €44.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

South Bend

Air
  • SBN

Detroit

Air
  • DTW
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 283 km against 274 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Ann Arbor, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Fort Wayne. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 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 South Bend at 06:36 and the last at 06:36, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Flights against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train2h 47m2h 3m44m€28.399.0 kg5
Flight3h 57m47m3h 10m€40.2669.6 kg1

Questions about South Bend to Detroit

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 South Bend to Detroit take?

The Flight from South Bend to Detroit takes 3h 57m door to door, of which 47m is spent moving. The route runs 283 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 South Bend to Detroit cost?

The Flight from South Bend to Detroit starts at €40.26 for one passenger, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare is €40.26. 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 South Bend to Detroit?

1 operators run the Flight from South Bend to Detroit: SkyWest. Between them they file around 1 departure 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 South Bend to Detroit use?

The Flight from South Bend to Detroit leaves from South Bend SBN and arrives at Detroit DTW. 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.

Is the Flight the best way from South Bend to Detroit?

Travelling from South Bend to Detroit by Train costs €28.39 and takes 2h 47m door to door, against 3h 57m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Flight from South Bend to Detroit?

Fares for the Flight from South Bend to Detroit bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €22.34. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 212 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from South Bend to Detroit produce?

The Flight from South Bend to Detroit produces about 69.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 283 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 South Bend to Detroit on 18 September 2026: 283 km of route against 274 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €40.26, and 3h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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