{"id":1386669,"date":"2019-02-04T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=965579"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:56:35","slug":"chicagos-ohare-airport-was-busiest-in-us-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/chicagos-ohare-airport-was-busiest-in-us-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare airport was busiest in US last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chicago-airport-620x413.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chicago-airport-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chicago-airport-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chicago-airport-325x216.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chicago-airport.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago was the busiest airport in the U.S. last year, surpassing Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration released data on Monday showing that O&#8217;Hare had more than 903,000 arrivals and departures during 2018. Atlanta&#8217;s airport was second, with more than 895,000 arrivals and departures.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Denver International Airport round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hare last held the top spot in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, O&#8217;Hare operations increased 4.2 percent, compared with a 1.8 percent increase in Atlanta. United Airlines is the largest carrier at O&#8217;Hare and has been adding more flights from its hub at the Chicago airport to smaller cities throughout the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/chicagos-ohare-airport-was-busiest-in-us-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago was the busiest airport in the U.S. last year, surpassing Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for the first time in four years. The Federal Aviation Administration released data on Monday showing that O&#8217;Hare had more than 903,000 arrivals and departures during 2018. Atlanta&#8217;s airport was second, with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 14:16:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}