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Old Oct 17, 2018, 5:30 am
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Originally Posted by yohanson
None of the above "MKE being a better alternative to ORD" explains the full planes MSP-MKE though...especially on Mondays. ORD has one more direct flight daily and all but two are on MD90s, with a 717 and a CR7. I'm still just baffled by it.
Why are you baffled? Southwest is by far the biggest carrier at MKE but only has 38 flights to just 21 destinations. Many passengers from MKE are going to need to connect somewhere. Delta has 439 peak day departures to 129 destinations from MSP. ORD has long sucked hard. Example: MSP ranks 3rd among the 30 biggest U.S. airports for on-time arrivals. ORD ranks 20th.

https://www.swamedia.com/pages/city-fact-sheets

https://news.delta.com/minneapolis-s...tional-airport

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