Columbus to Austin flight

Flights from Columbus to Austin start at €188.94 and take 6h 3m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Columbus to Austin starts at €188.94 and takes 6h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,768 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 3mDoor to door
  • 2h 53mMoving
  • €188.94From
  • 434.9 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€155.90
  1. American Airlines AA937507:302h 22m09:52Columbus LCKDallas DFW
  2. American Airlines AA344711:2151m12:12Dallas DFWAustin AUS

Changes at Dallas, with 89 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 52mCO2 446.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€172.42
  1. Southwest Airlines SA139506:522h 53m09:45Columbus CMHAustin AUS

Door to door 6h 3mCO2 434.9 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Southwest Airlines€172.425h 50m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Southwest Airlines

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

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Austin

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Columbus to Austin

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

  1. €183.6390 days
  2. €112.2460 days
  3. €144.6945 days
  4. €168.8830 days
  5. €202.5121 days
  6. €319.9214 days
  7. €300.457 days
  8. €303.993 days
  9. €425.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €112.24.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 279 percent. The most expensive point is €425.53, 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. €249.12Sun
  2. €188.94Mon
  3. €209.59Tue
  4. €197.79Wed
  5. €300.45Thu
  6. €213.13Fri
  7. €234.96Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Columbus

Air
  • CMH
  • LCK

Austin

Air
  • AUS
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 1,768 km against 1,717 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 Houston, St. Louis, Dallas, Nashville. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Columbus at 06:52 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 Columbus to Austin

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Columbus to Austin take?

The Flight from Columbus to Austin takes 6h 3m door to door, of which 2h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 1,768 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 Columbus to Austin cost?

The Flight from Columbus to Austin starts at €188.94 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €191.89. 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 Columbus to Austin?

1 operators run the Flight from Columbus to Austin: Southwest Airlines. 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 Columbus to Austin use?

The Flight from Columbus to Austin leaves from Columbus CMH and arrives at Austin AUS. 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 Columbus to Austin?

Fares for the Flight from Columbus to Austin bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €112.24. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 279 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Columbus to Austin produce?

The Flight from Columbus to Austin produces about 434.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1768 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Columbus to Austin on September 10, 2026: 1768 km of route against 1717 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €188.94, and 6h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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