Most people might tell you that holidays are the busiest season for airports.. but not in Chicago. This data may actually shock you.
The 13 busiest days at O’Hare – plus the number of flights in and out of the airport – were as follows:
- Thursday, July 27, 2017: 2,738 operations
- Thursday, June 29, 2017: 2,733 operations
- Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017: 2,721 operations
- Monday, July 31, 2017: 2,716 operations
- Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017: 2,713 operations
- Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017: 2,712 operations
- Monday, Aug. 7, 2017: 2,708 operations
- Wednesday, July 26, 2017: 2,708 operations
- Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017: 2,706 operations
- Friday, Aug. 11, 2017: 2,705 operations
- Tuesday, July 25, 2017: 2,705 operations
- Thursday, July 13, 2017: 2,699 operations
- Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017: 2,695 operations
The dates at Midway vary just slightly:
- Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016: 904 operations
- Thursday, June 15, 2017: 884 operations
- Thursday, June 8, 2017: 872 operations
- Thursday, July 27, 2017: 872 operations
- Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017: 863 operations
- Wednesday, June 7, 2017: 856 operations
- Tuesday, July 25, 2017: 854 operations
- Wednesday, Aug 2, 2017: 853 operations
- Tuesday, May 23, 2017: 850 operations
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