Chicago Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW , ICAO: KMDW , FAA LID: MDW ) is a large commercial advertisement airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located eight miles (13 km) from the Loop. Founded in 1927, Midway served as Chicago's main airport until the opening of O'Hare International Airport in 1955. Today, Midway is the second largest airport in the metropolitan area of ​​Chicago and the state of Illinois, serving 22,221,499 passengers by 2015. Traffic currently dominated by Southwest Airlines low-cost airlines; Chicago is Southwest's biggest focus city.
Originally named Chicago City Airport , its name was changed in honor of the Central Battle in 1942. The airfield is located on square miles bordered by 55th and 63rd Street, and Central and Cicero Avenues. The terminal complex is currently completed in 2001. The bridge connects Cicero Avenue and contains 43 gates with facilities for international passengers. Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and CTA Orange Line provide fast, barrier-free transit access to the Loop.
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Originally named Chicago Air Park , Midway Airport was built on an area of ​​320 acres (130Ã, ha) in 1923 with a cinder runway for air flights. In 1926, the city rented the airport and named it Chicago City Airport on December 12, 1927. In 1928, the airport had twelve hangars and four runways, lit for night operations.
The first major fire on June 25, 1930, destroyed two hangars and 27 planes, "12 of which are tri-motor passenger aircraft." The loss is estimated at more than two million dollars. The destroyed hangars are from Universal Air Lines, Inc., and Gray Goose Airlines, most recently leased to Stout Air Lines. The fire follows an undetermined explosion in the Universal hangar.
In 1931 a new passenger terminal opened on 62nd St.; the following year the airport was claimed as "The Busy World" with more than 100,846 passengers with 60,947 flights. (Official Flight Guide July 1932 (OAG) shows 206 scheduled flight departures in a week.)
More development is funded in part by $ 1 million from the Job Progress Administration; the airport expanded to fill the square miles in 1938-41 after the court ordered the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad to change the route of the path that crosses the square along the northern edge of the older field.
March 1939 OAG shows 47 business day departures: 13 on United, 13 Americans, 9 TWA, 4 Northwest, and two each in the East, Braniff, Pennsylvania Central, and C & The New York Airport (Newark, then LaGuardia at the end of 1939) later became the busiest airport in the United States, but Midway passed LaGuardia in 1948 and defended its title until 1960. The 1945 Japan-Washington flight record from B- 29 -is refueling at the airport on the way to Washington DC.
In July 1949 the airport was renamed after the Battle of the Middle. That year Midway saw 3.2 million passengers; passengers peaked at 10 million in 1959. Diagram of January 1951 C & amp; GS approached the graph showing four pairs of runway parallel, all 4240 feet or less except for the 5730-ft 13R runway (current runway 13C) and the 5230-ft 4R runway. Airport diagram for 1959
April 1957 OAG shows 414 fixed-wing departures on weekdays from Midway: 83 America, 83 United, 56 TWA, 40 Capital, 35 North Central, 28 Delta, 27 Eastern, 22 Northwest, 19 Ozark, 11 Braniff, 5 Trans-Canada , and 5 Central Lakes. Air France, Lufthansa, and REAL (from Brazil) have several flights per week. Midway ran out of space and in any case could not handle the 707 and DC-8 jets that appeared in 1959; every Chicago jet flight had to use O'Hare, which had been opened for airlines in 1955. Electras and Viscounts could continue to fly out of Midway, but O'Hare's vast new terminal opened in 1962, allowing airlines to consolidate their flights. From July 1962 to United back in July 1964, the only scheduled Midway airline was the Chicago Helicopter. In August 1966, a total of four wing arrivals remained scheduled, all United 727 (United alone in Midway until early 1968). Post-O'Hare_reconstruction_ (1963-1993) "> Post-O'Hare's reconstruction Post-O'Hare_reconstruction_.281963.E2.80.931993.29">
In 1967 reconstruction began at the airport, adding three new concourse with 28 gates and three ticket booths, and in 1968 the city invested $ 10 million for renovation funding. (For several months during the 1967 renovation Midway had no airline flight schedules.) The funds were partially supported by the Stevenson Expressway development, and Midway saw the return of the airline that year, with 1,663,074 passengers at smaller capacity, shorter distances. jet and trijet jets like the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, BAC One-Eleven, Boeing 727, and Boeing 737 that can use the Midway runway, which can not be reached by Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. In May 1968 there were 22 scheduled departures: six United 727s to MSP, DCA and LGA, 12 Northwest 727s to MSP and CLE, one Delta DC-9 to STL and three Ozark FH227s.
December 1970 OAG showed 86 workday arrivals (77 jets) on 13 fixed airlines from 31 airports, but August 1974 showed 14 arrivals (all jets) on four airlines, and in 1976-1979 Midway had only two or three Delta DC- 9 from St. Louis. Midway Airlines arrived on 31 October 1979 with a non-stop DC-9 to Kansas City, Detroit and Cleveland Lakefront; they grew rapidly in the 1980s. Their September 1989 timetable shows 117 departure day work to 29 cities, plus 108 departures on their commuter affiliates to 22 other cities. Midway stopped flying in 1991.
In 1982, the city of Chicago bought Midway Airport from Chicago Board of Education for $ 16 million. Three years later, Southwest Airlines began operations in Midway. Midway was the focal city for Vanguard Airlines from 1997 to 2000.
The Chicago Transit Authority transferred the Carlton Midway Inn to open a new CTA terminal at the airport on October 31, 1993, for the new Chicago Line 'L' Orange connecting Midway to the Chicago Loop. Midway Airport is the tip of the line, which crosses the southwest of the city before it ends on the Loop. The Orange Line does not operate 24 hours a day (unlike the Blue Line, which has a 24 hour service to O'Hare), but operates from about 4:00 am to 1:00 am, an average of 8 minutes interval. The journey from Midway to Loop takes 25 minutes.
Year of ATA (1994-2008)
In 1996, after failing to get its Lake Calumet Airport and receiving fierce criticism over the idea of ​​turning the airport into an industrial park, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced the Midway Airport Terminal Development Program, which was launched the following year. At that time, it was the largest public works project in the state. Midway Airport parking garage opened in 1999, bringing covered parking to the airport for the first time. The garage is connected to the Midway terminal building for easy access to the ticket counter and baggage claim area.
Continuing the expansion project, the pedestrian bridge over Cicero Avenue was built in 2000, connecting the new terminal to a new concourse. In 2001, the new 900,000 square foot Midway Airport (84,000 m 2 ) building opened, with larger ticket counters, large baggage claim area, travel information, and short walking distance to gate. A 50,000-square-foot food court (4,600 m 2 ) opens with Chicago-style food and retail options.
The expansion project culminated with a brief period of diversity of major airlines in Midway as Vanguard Airlines, National Airlines and AirTran Airways all expanded their services to the airport.
ATA Airlines (ATA) takes over the Chicago Express Airlines, also known as ATA Connection, whose main hub is in Midway. Chicago Express serves as the regional airline that connects to the airport around a large lake area.
Following the September 11 attacks, which resulted in the fall of passenger services, along with other problems for the aviation industry, both Vanguard and National stopped operating in Midway and became dead in 2002, with MetroJet disbanded and folded back to the US Airways main line by the end of 2001.
In 2002 Midway welcomed the return of international services after 40 years of absence with the opening of a new Federal Inspection Service facility in Concourse A.
In June 2004, Mayor Daley and the airline officials celebrated the completion of the Terminal Development Program. The project designed by HNTB resulted in an additional 14 gates (from 29 to 43), with the airport now having 43 gates in 3 concourses. The economic parking garage of 6,300 new rooms, including new bridges and roads for buses carrying passengers to and from the terminal, opened in December 2005.
Along with Midway's expansion, ATA Airlines began a rapid expansion in Midway in the early 2000s (decades), and became the dominant airport airline before 2004, using 14 of the 17 gates in Concourse A. However, after the airline declared bankruptcy in October 2004, scheduled from Midway decreased significantly.
For more than 16 years, Midway has become a major center for ATA based in Indianapolis, but the company closed on June 7, 2008. Previously, the airline filed for bankruptcy in April 2008; on April 3, 2008, ATA Airlines suspended all operations.
In November 2008, Porter Airlines, which flies between Midway and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the only international route served from Chicago-Midway after ATA Airlines, which has flights to Mexico, ceased operations in April of that year. On December 13, 2010, the second airline, Volaris, started the flight between Guadalajara and Midway.
Beginning in early 2009, the construction project added new roads and food courts to Concourse A. The project also connects the A4A and A4B gates to the main A concourse. Expansion completed in the spring of 2010.
Privatization Efforts
Chicago has considered privatizing the airport, but the deal failed in 2009 and 2013.
On April 20, 2009, a $ 2.5 billion deal to privatize the airport through a 99-year lease failed when the consortium was unable to unify the financing. City will maintain $ 125 million in advance payments. The consortium that operates on behalf of Midway Investment and Development Company LLC consists of Vancouver Airport Services, Citi Infrastructure Investors, and John Hancock Life Insurance from Boston. It was awarded a contract in October 2008 by the City Council, which voted 49-0 to approve it. The consortium will operate the airport and charge airport parking fees, concessions and passenger facilities. However, Chicago will continue to provide fire and police services. Chicago privatized the Chicago Skyway in 2007. In 2010 a new slogan emerged calling the airport.
In September 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ended negotiations to privatize the airport, noting that the process was no longer competitive after one of the two finalists had resigned. All that remains is the Great Lakes Airport Alliance - a partnership between Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and Ferrovial. Macquarie is one of the investors on the Chicago Skyway. The retreating group is a group that includes the Fund Management Industry and the Manchester Airport Group based in Australia. The Great Lakes proposal is worth $ 2 billion and will involve a 40-year lease.
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Air Field
All terminals and hangars are on the outskirts of the square. In the late 1970s, the shorter pairs of north-south and east-west springs had closed, though some were converted to taxiways. Four other runways remain in use, all reinforced and upgraded, but have the same length as they always do. A short runway (13R/31L) for light aircraft was added in 1989.
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- 4L/22R: 5,507Ã, ft ÃÆ'â € "150Ã, ft (1,679 mÃ-46 m), penerbangan umum dan taksi udara.
- 13L/31R: 5,141Ã, ft ÃÆ'â € "150Ã, ft (1,567Ã, mÃ-46 m), penerbangan umum dan taksi udara. Digunakan sebagai landasan pacu darurat untuk pesawat komersial.
- 13R/31L: 3.859Ã, ft à ±  ± 60Ã, ft (1.176Ã,  ± 18 m), pesawat ringan saja. Digunakan sebagai landasan pacu darurat untuk pesawat komersial.
Midway is surrounded by other buildings and developments, so the runway landing threshold is removed to provide barrier obstacles. The FAA and the airline ensure safety by complying with unaccountable load limits and various weather minimums. Due to the displaced occupation threshold, the runway has a shorter distance for landings than during takeoff. 13C/31C, the longest runway, has only a landing distance of 6,059 feet (1,847 m) in the southeast, and 5,826 feet (1,776 m) to the northwest. The largest aircraft normally seen on the Midway is the Boeing 757. Normally, commercial aircraft simply take off and land on 4R/22L and 13C/31C runways. Another platform is used by smaller aircraft.
Terminal
Midway has 43 aircraft gates in three concourses (A, B, and C). Southwest Airlines is the largest operator at the airport, controlling 32 gates, flying to 62 cities, with 242 departures daily in September 2017. By 2016, more than 22,677,000 passengers passed Midway, up 2% from a year earlier.
The three concourses and gates are:
- Concourse A - 17 gates (A1-A3, A4 A-B , A5, A7, A9-A12, A14-A19)
- Concourse B - 23 gates (B1-B3, B5-B12, B14-B26)
- Concourse C - 3 gates (C1-C3)
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Statistics
Chicago Midway Airport is the second largest passenger airport in the state of Illinois, with only the larger O'Hare. By 2016, Chicago Midway International Airport is the 26th busiest airport in the United States in terms of passenger traffic.
Chicago Midway ranks highest in customer satisfaction among the mid-highways (10 million to 30 million passengers per year) in the 2008 J. D. Power and Associates study.
Southwest is the dominant airline in Midway, controlling 34 of the 43 airport gates. Currently, the airline offers approximately 236 daily departures to 69 nonstop destinations.
Top destinations
Annual traffic
Accidents and incidents
On December 8, 1972, United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737-200, crashed into a residential area outside Midway during landing. The 737-200 accident killed 43 of 61 on board, and two on the ground. One of the victims on the plane was Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate E. Howard Hunt conspirator. He brought $ 10,000 in cash. James McCord alleged that he supplied Watergate defendants with money for legal fees.
Exactly 33 years later, on December 8, 2005, Southwest Airlines Flight 1248, a Boeing 737-700 entered from Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, slid off the runway while trying to land at the airport in a heavy snowstorm. The plane broke through the airport boundary fence, and stopped at the intersection of 55th Street and Central Avenue bordering the airport at its northwest corner. A 6-year-old boy was killed as a passenger in a vehicle that was attacked by a plane after slipping into the street.
Source: Archives of the Civil Aeronautical Council, notes NTSB.
Note: Before 1941, the runway did not have numerical designation. The current base set 13C/31C set 13R/31L from 1941 to 1989, when the new Runway 13R/31L was built. Runways 27L, 27R, 36L and 36R closed in 1973.
See also
- Gary/Chicago International Airport
- Rockford International Airport
- Meigs Field
- Illinois World War II Army Airfields
- 2014 fire air traffic control facilities
References
External links
- Official website
- Mid-way: Terminal and Concourse Map
- TWA Crash of 1959
- Damage Summary 1972
- openNav: MDW/KMDW graphics
- Middle Start Image
- Historical Buildings of America (HABS) No. IL-305, "Midway Airport, South Terminal, Cicero Avenue between Fifty-Five and Sixty-three Streets, Chicago, Cook County, IL"
- FAA Airport Chart Ã, (PDF) , effective June 21, 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KMDW
- ASN accident history for MDW
- FlightAware airport information and direct flight trackers
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautics graph for KMDW
- Current MDW delays information
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