O'Hare no longer busiest U.S. airport
Posted January 21, 2016 12:00 am
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport bumped O'Hare International Airport from its peak as the nation's busiest airport in 2015, data released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration shows.
O'Hare hosted 875,136 flight operations last year, a few thousand shy of rival Hartsfield-Jackson's tally of 882,497.
While Hartsfield-Jackson grew operations by 1.6 percent in 2015, O'Hare flights dipped by nearly 1 percent in 2014, when it handled 881,933.
Midway International Airport was busier in 2015, however, with 253,519 operations versus 249,252 in 2014.