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O'Hare on pace to take back 'world's busiest airport' title
O’Hare International Airport is on pace to again be the world’s busiest airport, a designation it lost a decade ago, Chicago city officials said Wednesday. (www.chicagotribune.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This article is using the number of arrivals/departures as the metric for ORD when ATL is based on number of total passengers. It has always been a battle of the metrics. An airport can have more flights but less passengers ... just a matter of which statistic you wish to follow.
Bigger or busiest is not always better. While newer and super busy, ATL and DFW are laid out for people moving through them. A concourse or terminal change at ATL is a walk in the par with that train. They move people.
ORD, ATL, and DFW are very different animals - ATL is designed with connecting traffic in mind while DFW was originally designed with the "car to plane" concept and little thought to transfer passengers. O'Hare is a somewhat earlier design that's been retrofitted over the years and that the OMP work is now further modifying.
O'Hare is pretty capable of moving quite a lot of people, though. Not to mention that unlike Atlanta or Dallas, O'Hare has two airline hub operations rather than just one is also a mark in its favor because the airport maintains pretty good efficiency in operations despite the added complexity of its operations.
O'Hare is pretty capable of moving quite a lot of people, though. Not to mention that unlike Atlanta or Dallas, O'Hare has two airline hub operations rather than just one is also a mark in its favor because the airport maintains pretty good efficiency in operations despite the added complexity of its operations.
DFW is coming around to the terminal to terminal concept. I can attest to the fact that it is a long ways from one end of that thing to the other. They try not to but gate changes are inevitable. With their new people mover, it is gaining on ATL in that regard. O'Hare is from another era and having to play catchup. I know UAL is up there but who has 2nd hub?
American runs a hub out of O'Hare, albeit they've been shrinking it over the years.
While it sounds cool to have 'World's Busiest' tagged to something, I'd much rather get from/to Chicago via the nearest airport to my actual origin/destination. Even if that means KGYY! http://www.garychicagoairport.com
I cannot imagine anyone outside of the South Side feels Gary is convenient (or safe for that matter).
We are finally getting local air service again, this time direct to ORD instead of MSP. Exciting to me since I would rather connect to an airport with 60+ airlines instead of one that has only 5.
We are finally getting local air service again, this time direct to ORD instead of MSP. Exciting to me since I would rather connect to an airport with 60+ airlines instead of one that has only 5.
I figure, if it's good enough for the executives of Boeing, it's not all that bad. http://bcove.me/g8o1ydpg