Chicago O'Hare
Chicago, US.
- Code
- ORD
- Position
- 41.979, -87.905
- Runway
- 3,500 m paved from 1945, 3,962 m paved from 1971
- Capacity
- About 17,097 movements a week, 193 stands, terminal generation 3
- Weather
- Worst month loses about 2.3% of flights
- Confidence
- estimated (to be verified). Coordinates agree with published sources to within about 2.5 km. Other figures are estimates unless the evidence below says otherwise.
Source: O'Hare article: last new runway added 1971, longest runway 3,962 m (present). Throughput 47.8M (1979), 38.0M (1981), 50.0M (1985), ATA: about 920 thousand a week in 1979.