Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Chicago to Scranton. From €76.63, fastest 4h 52m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Chicago to Scranton costs €76.63 at the cheapest and takes 4h 52m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 3 operators. The route covers 1,026 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 53m | 1h 43m | 3h 10m | €103.39 | 252.4 kg | 12 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Detroit, with 69 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 9h 29mCO2 167.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 4h 53mCO2 252.4 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Transit Authority3 changes | 157 | 11:28 | 12:30 | 25h 17m |
| Chicago Transit Authority3 changes | 60 | 11:59 | 16:45 | 28h 57m |
| Chicago Transit Authority4 changes | 60 | 11:59 | 16:14 | 28h 27m |
| Chicago Transit Authority5 changes | 60 | 11:59 | 16:17 | 28h 26m |
| Greyhound-us2 changes | Greyhound US0100 | 15:15 | 20:50 | 29h 58m |
| Chicago Transit Authority3 changes | 124 | 15:11 | 20:50 | 29h 54m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Chicago to Scranton | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €236.68 | €159.68 | €173.43 | €146.48 | €136.03 | €121.73 | €113.48 | €140.43 | €124.48 | €99.18 | €125.58 | €94.78 | €105.23 | €94.23 |
| Flight | €246.76 | €188.94 | €197.79 | €147.64 | €131.12 | €129.35 | €144.69 | €136.43 | €128.17 | €132.30 | €125.81 | €108.70 | €103.39 | €110.47 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €76.63
The flight gets you into Scranton. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
 Air Wisconsin | €95.13 |
 GoJet Airlines | €92.18 |
| United Airlines | €89.23 |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €66.50 | 87% |
| Taxes | €6.65 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 2% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 3% |
| Total you pay | €76.63 | 100% |
Check-in is at three and you will be in Scranton well before then. Lockers are not something we run.
Most of the points near Scranton open before the first train and close after the last one.
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The fastest journey from Chicago to Scranton takes 4h 52m door to door, of which 1h 43m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 4h 58m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Chicago to Scranton is €76.63, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €138.79. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Chicago to Scranton is by Flight, at €103.39 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 4h 53m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Chicago to Scranton bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €60.13. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 294 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Chicago to Scranton, at €94.23. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
December is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Chicago to Scranton, at €62.33 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
3 operators sell services from Chicago to Scranton across 1 modes: Air Wisconsin, GoJet Airlines, United Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
69 percent of the services we sell from Chicago to Scranton are direct. The rest connect at Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte, with about 69 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Chicago to Scranton by Flight leave from Chicago ORD and arrive at Scranton AVP. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 3 operators we sell from Chicago to Scranton allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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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Our job ends at the platform. What fills the days in Scranton afterward does not belong to us.
Day trips that leave Scranton in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.
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