ORD — O'Hare International Airport, Chicago
Converted from a wartime aircraft factory and named after a naval aviator. Took Chicago's traffic when Midway ran out of room, and was the world's busiest airport for decades.
The airport
- City
- Chicago
- Country/region
- United States of America
- Runway
- 3,963 m
- Slots
- 270
- Open
- 1955 onwards
- International flights
- Accepted
- Playable in
- US Widebody Golden Age · US Jet Age to Modern · US Low-Cost & Globalization · US Modern
Its 3,963 m runway takes 182 of the game's 182 aircraft types — up to the Airbus A380-800.
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.