Chicago Midway Airport

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Midway International Airport
Midway Airport Airfield.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code KMDW
IATA code MDW
Coordinates

41 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 87 ° 45 ′ 9 ″  W Coordinates: 41 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 87 ° 45 ′ 9 ″  W
Height above MSL 189 m (620  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 14 km southwest of Chicago
Street I-55 / IL 50
Local transport Bus
Subway :
CTA Chicago Elevated Orange Line
Basic data
opening 1927
operator Chicago City Department of Aviation
surface 340 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 20,844,860 (2019)
Air freight 17,553 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		232,084 (2019)
Runways
04R / 22L 1965 m × 46 m
concrete
04L / 22R 1679 m × 46 m
asphalt
13C / 31C 1988 m × 46 m
concrete
13R / 31L 1176 m × 18 m
concrete
13L / 31R 1567 m × 46 m
asphalt

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The Midway International Airport is one of the airports of the US city of Chicago in the US state of Illinois .

location

Map of the two airports in Chicago
Map of the airport

Midway is a square with intersecting runways and is located in the southwest of the city near the center. The airport, which is mainly used by many low-cost airlines, has the IATA code MDW. The airport is not suitable for large long-haul aircraft because the runways are too short. Despite strong expansion in recent years, it is significantly less used than O'Hare Airport . The largest user is currently Southwest Airlines .

history

Before local rival O'Hare overtook it in the late 1950s , Midway was the busiest airport in the world and one of the central aviation hubs for US airlines. United Airlines was headquartered here, and American Airlines was also based here before moving to New York in the 1930s.

Midway was ATA Airlines ' main base until February 2008, flying to cities in Mexico and the Caribbean from here.

Furnishing

Runways 13C, 31C and 04R have an instrument landing system (ILS).

Airlines and Destinations

The Midway International Airport serves Southwest Airlines as its base. It is also used by Delta Air Lines , Porter Airlines and Volaris . In December 2019, non-stop flights were offered to 58 national and 11 international destinations. The international destinations were in the Dominican Republic , Jamaica , Canada and Mexico .

Traffic figures

Source: Chicago City Department of Aviation
Sources: Chicago City Department of Aviation
Midway International Airport traffic figures 2000–2019
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail) 		Flight movements
National International total
2019 20,046,124 798.736 20,844,860 17,553 232.084
2018 21,233,323 794.414 22,027,737 20,318 243,322
2017 21,642,687 817,549 22.460.236 20,113 251,341
2016 21,889,697 787.892 22,677,589 19,708 253.046
2015 21,441,744 779.755 22,221,499 22,877 253,519
2014 20,587,652 592.181 21,179,833 23,017 249.252
2013 19,938,311 536.241 20,474,552 23,736 252.126
2012 19,169,588 346,539 19,516,127 25,321 249,913
2011 18,639,373 243,797 18,883,170 23,669 255.227
2010 17,577,360 99.053 17,676,413 25,608 245,533
2009 17,028,761 60,604 17,089,365 22,689 244.810
2008 17,311,644 33.991 17,345,635 12,931 266,341
2007 19,253,846 125.009 19,378,855 13,360 304,657
2006 18,680,663 187.725 18,868,388 15,477 298,542
2005 17,650,436 212.402 17,862,838 17,654 289,579
2004 19,407,906 310,330 19,718,236 26,351 339.508
2003 18,416,197 228.175 18,644,372 23,448 328.025
2002 16,729,451 229.778 16,959,229 75,725 304,304
2001 15.628.805 81 15,628,886 15,569 278.734
2000 15,672,581 107 15,672,688 21,101 298.115

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from Chicago – Midway (2019)
rank city Passengers airline
01 Atlanta , Georgia 461.610 Delta , Southwest
02 Denver , Colorado 410,700 Southwest
03 Las Vegas , Nevada 400.280 Southwest
04th Orlando , Florida 372,400 Southwest
05 Minneapolis / Saint Paul , Minnesota 357,850 Delta Connection , Southwest
06th Phoenix – Sky Harbor , Arizona 349,820 Southwest
07th Dallas – Love , Texas 296,900 Southwest
09 Los Angeles , California 281,350 Southwest
08th Houston – Hobby , Texas 280.410 Southwest
10 Baltimore , Maryland 278.630 Southwest

Incidents

Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
  • On January 4, 1951, the captain of an overloaded Curtiss C-46D-15-CU Commando of the Monarch Air Service ( aircraft registration number N79982) tried to take off from Chicago Midway Airport with too low a power setting of the engines. There was a stall and loss of control. During the crash landing just outside the airport, fire broke out. All 48 occupants survived (3 crew members and 45 passengers).
  • On February 20, 1956, a Vickers Viscount 744 from Capital Airlines (N7404) had to be written off as a total loss after a landing accident at Chicago Midway Airport. There were no fatalities among the 42 inmates.
  • On November 24, 1959, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation operated by Trans World Airlines (TWA) (N102R) crashed into a residential area about 400 meters from the Chicago Midway departure airport. After an engine failure on takeoff, the pilots returned there and were unable to maintain an appropriate attitude. All 3 crew members of the cargo flight and 8 people on the ground were killed.
  • On February 29, 1960, the main landing gear of a Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation operated by Trans World Airlines (TWA) (N7101C) collapsed during take-off at Chicago Midway Airport. All 60 occupants, 6 crew members and 54 passengers survived. The machine was a total write-off.
  • On December 8, 2005, a Boeing 737-7H4 from Southwest Airlines (N471WN ) coming from Baltimore ( Maryland ) with 103 people on board came off the runway in heavy snowdrifts . She then broke through the airport fence and only came to a stop on a busy street. Apart from a few minor injuries, no one was injured on the plane itself, but the plane buried a car under it, as the nose wheel broke off during the unsuccessful landing in addition to an engine. In that car sat a family of five whose son was killed. The American traffic safety authority (NTSB) spoke in an initial reaction of difficult, but nevertheless acceptable conditions for the landing of the aircraft (see also Southwest Airlines flight 1248 ) .

Web links

Commons : Chicago Midway International Airport  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Midway History. FlyChicago.com, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Facility Data. FlyChicago.com, accessed April 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Air Traffic Data. FlyChicago.com, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Non-Stop Service. FlyChicago.com, December 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  5. ^ Chicago, IL: Chicago Midway International (MDW). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed April 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ accident report C-46 N79982 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 15 January 2018th
  7. ↑ ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest 2, Circular 24-AN / 21, Montreal 1951 (English), pp. 45-46.
  8. ↑ Accident report Viscount 744 N7404 Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 13, 2020.
  9. ↑ ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest 12, Circular 54-AN / 58, Montreal 1963 (English), pp. 80-83.
  10. ↑ accident report L-1049H N102R , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 December of 2019.
  11. ↑ accident report L-1049G N7101C , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 December of 2019.
  12. ↑ Lockheed accident report L-049 N86511 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 29, 2019.