O'Hare International Airport

Chicago O'Hare International Airport
IATA: ORD ICAO: KORD FAA LID: ORD WMO: 72530
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Chicago
Operator	Chicago Department of Aviation
Serves	Chicago metropolitan area
Location	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Opened	February 1944 (1944-02)[1]
Hub for	American Airlines United Airlines Cargo Atlas Air
Focus city for	Frontier Airlines[2] Spirit Airlines[3]
Elevation AMSL	668 ft / 204 m
Coordinates	41°58′43″N 87°54′17″W / 41.97861°N 87.90472°W / 41.97861; -87.90472
Website	www.flychicago.com/ohare
Map
ORD Location of airport in Chicago Show map of Chicago metropolitan area ORD ORD (Illinois) Show map of Illinois ORD ORD (the United States) Show map of the United States ORD ORD (North America) Show map of North America
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 4L/22R 7,500 2,286 Asphalt 4R/22L 8,075 2,461 Asphalt 9L/27R 7,500 2,286 Concrete 9C/27C 11,245 3,428 Under Construction 9R/27L 7,967 2,428 Asphalt/Concrete 10R/28L 7,500 2,286 Concrete 10C/28C 10,801 3,292 Concrete 10L/28R 13,000 3,962 Asphalt/Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 200 61 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Passenger volume 83,245,472 Aircraft movements 903,747 Cargo (metric tons) 1.868 million Economic impact $39 billion
Sources: FAA[4] and airport's website[5][6]

Chicago O'Hare International Airport is an airport on the edge of Chicago, Illinois. It is in the Chicago neighborhood O'Hare. It is one of the largest airports in both the United States and the world. It is a "hub" for both United Airlines (its second largest hub) and American Airlines, meaning that flights from many cities come and go from the airport daily. It gets the most international flights of any American airport not on the East or West Coast.

The Federal government of the United States reduces the amount of delayed flights in the airport in order to shift the burden of domestic flights at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.^[7]

United Airlines (including United Express) is the largest airline at O'Hare, carrying over 45% of passengers. O'Hare is the second-largest hub for United, after Houston-Bush. American Airlines (including American Eagle) has the second largest operation at O'Hare, carrying 37.08% of passengers. O'Hare is American Airlines' third-largest hub, after Dallas/Fort Worth and Charlotte-Douglas.^[8]

O'Hare has been voted the "Best Airport in North America" for 10 years by two separate sources: Readers of the U.S. Edition of Business Traveler Magazine (1998–2003) and Global Traveler Magazine (2004–2007).^[9] Travel and Leisure magazine's 2009 "America's Favorite Cities" ranked Chicago's Airport System (O'Hare and Midway) the second-worst for delays, New York City's airport system (JFK, Newark Liberty, and LaGuardia) being the first.^[10] O'Hare currently accounts for over a sixth of the nation's total flight cancellations.^[11]

The O'Hare Airport is 668 feet (204 meters) above sea level.^[12]

It is operated by the City of Chicago Department of Aviation. Most of O'Hare Airport is in Cook County. However, a section of the southwest part of the airport is in DuPage County. The Cook County portion is located within a section of the city of Chicago contiguously connected to the rest of the city via a narrow strip of land about 200 feet (61 m) wide, running along Foster Ave. from the Des Plaines River to the airport.^[13] This land was annexed into the city limits in the 1950s to assure the massive tax revenue associated with the airport being part of the city. The strip is bounded on the north by Rosemont and the south by Schiller Park.^[14]

1. ↑ "Chicago O'Hare International Airport". AirNav, LLC. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
2. ↑ Harden, Mark (September 30, 2014). "Frontier Airlines making Chicago's O'Hare a focus". Chicago Business Journal. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
3. ↑ Bhaskara, Vinay (October 1, 2014). "Spirit Airlines Adds Two New Routes at Chicago O'Hare". Airways News. Archived from the original on October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
4. ↑ FAA Airport Master Record for ORD (Form 5010 PDF), effective March 15, 2007.
5. ↑ "Mayor Emanuel Announces Record-Breaking Year for Passengers and Air Cargo at Chicago Airports". flychicago.com. Chicago Department of Transportation. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
6. ↑ https://www.flychicago.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Business/FactAndFigures/AirTraffic/1218%20ORD%20SUMMARY.pdf
7. ↑ "O'Hare International Airport (ORD) Chicago – United States". Airport booking center.com. Retrieved September 7, 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. ↑ "Chicago, IL: O'Hare (ORD)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
9. ↑ "Chicago Voted Best Airport in North America" (PDF) (Press release). Chicago Department of Aviation. December 6, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
10. ↑ "America's Favorite Cities 2009". Travel + Leisure. Archived from the original on August 6, 2010. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
11. ↑ "Table 6: Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Departure Performance Year-to-date through July 2006". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
12. ↑ "Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States". Airport information.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
13. ↑ "City of Chicago Community Areas" (PDF). Webportal. City of Chicago. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
14. ↑ "Ward 41" (PDF). Webportal. City of Chicago. October 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2008.^{[permanent dead link]}