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Old Mar 7, 2021 | 9:24 am
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Originally Posted by Putnik
That's why I love flying into Midway. There is never overshooting the airport all the way to Elgin and the taxying takes a couple minutes since runways are so short. But United doesn't fly into Midway
That's a function of traffic. MDW has significant less traffic than ORD.

I went back to 2019 to get pre-COVID numbers:

ORD Total aircraft operations: 919,704
MDW Total aircraft operations: 232,084

Those numbers are from the https://www.flychicago.com/business/...irtraffic.aspx website.
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