Chicago Midway International Airport

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The Chicago Midway Airport is one of the airports in the U.S. city of Chicago.

Location

Midway is square created with intersecting runways and is located in the southwest of the city near the center. The especially by many low cost airlines airport in the has the IATA code MDW. For large long-range aircraft, the airport is not suitable due to short runways. Despite strong expansion in recent years, he has used much less than the O'Hare airport. The biggest user is Southwest Airlines.

History

Before the late 1950s, the local rivals O'Hare overtook him, Midway was the busiest airport in the world and one of the key aviation hubs for U.S. airlines. United Airlines had its headquarters here, and American Airlines was located here in the 1930s before moving to New York.

Midway was until February 2008, the main base of ATA Airlines, the cities in Mexico and the Caribbean had approached from here.