MDW — Chicago Midway International Airport
Chicago's original airport and once the busiest in the world, packed into a single square mile of city blocks. Its size limits handed the jet age to O'Hare.
The airport
- City
- Chicago
- Country/region
- United States of America
- Runway
- 1,988 m
- Slots
- 180
- Open
- 1927 onwards
- International flights
- Not accepted — domestic only
- Playable in
- US Widebody Golden Age · US Jet Age to Modern · US Low-Cost & Globalization · US Modern
Its 1,988 m runway takes 68 of the game's 182 aircraft types — up to the Boeing 767-200.
About Chicago
Third-largest US city, on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, and the transport hinge between the American East and West. Rail, commodity trading and manufacturing made it a natural aviation crossroads.
Population about 8,710,000 at the game's 2010 snapshot.
Chicago is a business market: its traffic comes from companies and connections rather than from holidays, which rewards frequency over seat count.