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What do people pay for a flight from Chicago to Miami?

Airfares paid in the United States, from U.S. Department of Transportation. This source is answered live, so the page shows how to ask, not a number.

An official average or median published by a statistics office or regulator, not individual sales.

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Where this comes from

Source
Consumer Airfare Report: Table 1a (airport pairs), Table 6 (city pairs) and Table 2 (city summary), published by U.S. Department of Transportation (Office of the Secretary, Office of Aviation Analysis), from airline data submitted to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Licence
Public Domain U.S. Government (the licence stated on the datasets at data.transportation.gov; each dataset also carries licenseId USGOV_WORKS and points to http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/). USA.gov: "Government work is something created by a U.S. government officer or employee as part of their official duties."
Attribution
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Consumer Airfare Report (Table 1a, Table 6 and Table 2), data.transportation.gov. Average fares are passed on as published; ProofPrice calculates the year-on-year change. Not endorsed by the Department of Transportation.
How fresh the source is
Quarterly, published about five to six months after the quarter ends (the first quarter of 2026 was published in September 2026); every answer states its quarter
Limits
Averages over all tickets sold in a market in one quarter, not today's fare, a quote or an offer; DOT itself says airline prices fluctuate, so these averages likely won't match current ticket prices. Each-way fares (the price per direction) including first-class tickets, taxes and airport fees; free tickets such as frequent-flyer awards and extras such as baggage and seat fees are not included. Contiguous 48 states only (Alaska, Hawaii and the territories are not in the tables). City-pair markets with fewer than 10 passengers a day are not published. Carrier-level fares exist in the DOT tables but are not passed on: no airline's fare is quoted. Published about five to six months after the quarter ends. A request with only `from` gets the city-level average over that city's busiest markets (DOT Table 2); BTS's per-airport itinerary-fare tool is an interactive web page, not a data API.
Rule
A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.