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Chicago serves more than 105 million travelers, O’Hare surpasses Atlanta as busiest airport (flight operations) in United States in 2018

提交时间：5 年以前

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) have announced 2018 was another record-breaking year for O’Hare and Midway International Airports combined, with the most passengers served and highest volume of cargo tonnage handled to date. According to preliminary data from airlines, more than 105 million passengers traveled through O’Hare and Midway International Airports last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2017. Also setting records, the total flight operations… (worldairlinenews.com) 更多...

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Scott Campbell 5 年以前 4

the longest taxi if any US airport... just got longer. Some short regional flights taxi longer than they're in the air from ORD

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MultiComm 5 年以前 1

Same for some short cargo flights. Just operated CVG-ORD and even with nonethibg going on ... middle of the night ... it is a 20 min tact for a 40 min flight. Add in De-ice and it doubles/triples.

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Scott Campbell 5 年以前 1

longest taxi OF any US airport - geez

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sparkie624 5 年以前 4

Not really surprising... they handle a lot of traffic!

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jbqwik 5 年以前 2

bragging rights for the airport, perhaps, but not the PAX

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Kevin Haiduk 5 年以前 2

Atlanta needs another airport.

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Kevin Haiduk 5 年以前 1

Needs to add another I should say.

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MultiComm 5 年以前 1

Atlanta still has huge plans to maximize their landlocked space. One more runway and two more concourses and the taxi taxi times will still be shorter than ORD.

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william baker 5 年以前 1

And Delta is probably thinking, we had that all taken care of how did United get it from us. Lol.

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Kobe Hunte 5 年以前 0

hmmm... where did we go wrong. lol

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Mark Blegen 5 年以前 0

wonder how long will take to change the bragging rights at each airport?

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MultiComm 5 年以前 1

ATL still retains the most passenger emplacements 107+ million last year). This has been a battle for decades. ORD has more annual flights but ATL moves more passengers.

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Mark Blegen 5 年以前 1

i mean the signs at the airports,,,,,worlds busiest airport

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