The USA’s third-largest metropolitan area of almost 10 million people, Midway is one of two main airports serving Chicagoland. Located about 18 kilometres from the Chicago Loop, Chicago MDW ranked as the USA’s 30th busiest airport by seat capacity last year, according to Cirium schedules information data. It had 12.6 million one-way seats. In Q1 […]
January 17, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Swoop has added another new US destination to its network with the introduction on 30 May of non-stop service to Chicago ORD from the airline’s Toronto YYZ base. Swoop becomes the third Canadian airline to start offering this route in the last month. Low-cost rival Flair began 3-weekly service on 17 May, while Swoop’s parent […]
June 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
United continued its transatlantic expansion with the addition of a new, daily service between Chicago ORD and Milan MXP. The first flight (UA 416) departed Chicago on Friday 6 May at 21:25 local time, arriving in Milan at 12:20 the following morning, after a flight of just under eight hours. The first flight from Milan […]
May 12, 2022 | Latest Route News +
On Thursday 28 April Frontier returned to Chicago MDW after an absence of seven years. The ULCC launched seven routes that day, with another route added the following day. Frontier had last flown out of Chicago’s second airport in April 2015, when it offered service to Trenton in New Jersey. In the summer of 2014, […]
May 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ironwood in northern Michigan lies on the Montreal River just 30 kilometres south of Lake Superior and across the river from Hurley in Wisconsin. It is located in Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of the state. Originally a mining town, it is now close to several popular ski resorts. Until the end of September, […]
October 14, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Despite (as yet) no significant easing of the US’s entry restrictions regarding European nationals, US carriers have recently increased their services to Europe and even started new routes. One such is United Airlines’s new daily service between Washington IAD and Athens. The first flight (UA 982 operated by a Boeing 787-8, registration N45905) departed the […]
July 5, 2021 | Latest Route News +