Statistics
Chicago Midway Airport is the second largest passenger airport in the state of Illinois after Chicago O'Hare International Airport. In 2005, Chicago Midway International Airport was the 30th busiest airport in the United States in terms of passenger traffic.
Chicago Midway ranked highest in customer satisfaction among medium-sized airports (10 million to 30 million passengers per year) in J. D. Power and Associates' 2008 study.
Southwest, along with their subsidiary AirTran Airways, is the dominant carrier at Midway, controlling 34 of the airport's 43 gates. Currently, the airlines offer a combined 250 daily departures to 60 nonstop destinations.
| Midway | O'Hare | |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 337,421 | 66,205 |
| 1959 | 345,170 | 82,417 |
| 1960 | 298,582 | 163,351 |
| 1961 | 187,978 | 235,908 |
| 1962 | 46,873 | 331,090 |
| 1963 | 19,054 | 358,266 |
| 1964 | 19,017 | 389,640 |
| 1965 | 16,716 | 443,026 |
| 1966 | 5,090 | 478,644 |
| 1967 | 4,427 | 573,506 |
| 1968 | 26,941 | 628,632 |
| 1969 | 31,394 | 632,030 |
| 1970 | 43,553 | 598,973 |
| 1971 | 51,734 | 565,826 |
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