Huge and beautiful metropolis on the lakeMichigan, Chicago is rightly called the capital of the Midwest. It occupies the 3rd place in terms of the number of residents (after New York and Los Angeles), and is a major industrial, cultural, and financial center. With a population of 2,722,553 people, it represents the largest transportation hub of the United States, and Chicago airports take planes from 60 foreign countries and domestic airlines daily.
The workload of all three airports in this city indicates how important this populated area is in North America.
O’Hara Airport Description
In the northwestern district of Chicago isthe largest international airport of O’Hara. Every day more than 2,600 take-offs and landings are made in it, which makes it the busiest in the world, so work in this place cannot be called easy.
This airport is located 27 km from the city center. Here, during the Second World War, the Douglas aircraft factory was built, but in the coming peacetime 180,000 meters2, which he held, were freed.The Chicago administration decided to develop an aerodrome built during production for testing aircraft, and in 1949 it was named after the famous military pilot, ace Edward O’Hara. This name he bears in our time.
Ohara Airport (Chicago) has come a long way, which included such changes:
- by 1955, he began to take commercial flights;
- in 1958, an international terminal was built;
- By 1962, work on the expansion of the airport was completed, and it became the busiest in the world;
- in 1965, 10 million passengers were transported through it in a year;
- 1997 - a new record was set, and the number of people arriving annually at O’Hara airport exceeded 70 million;
- Nowadays, its terminals allow up to 80 million people per year.
This giant is connected to the city by a small plot of land only 70 m wide, which allows the city municipality to manage it.
Terminals
To date, Chicago airports have not yet fully cope with the huge number of passengers arriving every year in Illinois or in transit.
There are currently 4 terminals in O’Hara,but the air traffic controllers are still considered the busiest in the world. In the near future, another 2 terminals are planned to be built, for which the city authorities will have to relocate almost 3,000 people.
This airport has 186 exits to terminals No. 1, 2, 3 and 5 and 9 of the halls for receiving passengers. Each of them has its own halls and transitions between them:
- Terminal number 1 consists of 2 halls and 53 exits.Through it, airlines are served: in the hall of United Airlines, which makes flights to Atlanta, Amsterdam, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York, Singapore and other cities. In Room C, passengers are waiting for flights to Albany, Omaha, Syracuse, Austin, Cleveland, Kansas City, Portland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and hundreds of other cities (United Express).
Interesting: this terminal was designed and built in 1987, and before that international flights served the building, erected in 1955
- Terminal number 2 was erected in 1962. Today, modified, it holds 2 rooms with 30 exits. From it departures to Canada and on internal lines are made.
- In terminal number 3 there are 77 passes to the runways in four halls. This American Airlines hub serves domestic airlines.
- Terminal 5 is an international hall with 21 exits.
In addition to the transportation of passengers, Chicago airports provide freight, for which each of them created separate zones for this.
O'Hare Airport Infrastructure
Runways at this airport are in an unfavorable location, as they intersect with each other. This causes the threat of aircraft collisions, especially when visibility is poor.
Currently being refurbished,for which 2 lanes were closed in order to build 4 new ones, but running parallel to each other instead. Given the load on the airport, we can say that this is a titanic work that requires the maximum concentration of both dispatchers and pilots.
This is today's Chicago airport.The scheme of its restructuring inspires hope that soon up to 3,800 aircraft will take off daily from its new safe runways. For the time being, there is a struggle between communities that will have to relocate to new places of residence, but there is hope that a consensus will be found and the airport will be expanded.
In addition, all Chicago airports are required to comply with the requirements of the noise reduction program and use only one runway from 24.00 to 6.00.
Transportation of a huge number of passengersinside the O’Hara terminal, special wagons deliver people to all terminals from the parking lot. The total length of the path is 4.3 km.
Midway Airport
Аэродром Мидуэй был построен в 1923 году всего в 13 km from Chicago. His only strip at that time was used to receive the aircraft carrying mail. In 1927, he received the status of the airport, and a year later expanded to 12 hangars and four runways.
На сегодняшний день основным авиаперевозчиком, used it is Southwest Airlines. Over 20 million people pass through it annually, and it is rightfully considered the second largest in Illinois.
Through 3 terminals with 43 gates daily departures are carried out on the following routes:
- Southwest Airlines - in Orlando, Cancun, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Denver, Buffalo, Boston, Phoenix, Philadelphia and dozens of others.
- Delta Air Lines to Atlanta.
- Frontier Airlines to Trenton and Wilmington.
- Volaris - in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Guanajuato.
Like other Chicago airports, Midway is very busy and ranks 3rd in the US busiest airport rating.
Eskieciv Airport
This Chicago airport is of regional importance.and at one time bore the name "Field Gauthier." In 1953, he had only one runway on 40 acres of land. It was acquired by George Priester, landscaped for 30 years, and today it is the third busiest airport in Chicago, passing through more than 200,000 passengers each year.
Online scoreboard
For customers developed interactiveChicago airport Internet board, where they can find out the time of arrival and departure of the aircraft, as well as its status at a given time. O’Hara as the largest airport in Chicago (the most controversial reviews about it) is always heavily loaded, so it is possible to postpone the departure time. Such a service as an online scoreboard will allow passengers to keep abreast of such changes.
