{"id":233797,"date":"2025-06-12T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-chicago-ohare-so-many-runways\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:00:16","slug":"why-in-the-world-does-chicago-ohare-have-so-many-runways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=233797","title":{"rendered":"Why In The World Does Chicago O&#8217;Hare Have So Many Runways?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most significant operational assets that any airport possesses is its numerous runways, which facilitate aircraft takeoffs and landings. By having more runways, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/2442-daily-movements-chicago-ohare-is-the-worlds-busiest-airport-for-flights\/\" >an airport can drastically expand its passenger and aircraft operation capacity<\/a>. Therefore, runways tend to be key catalysts for the continued growth of a large airport. In the United States, nearly all the largest global gateways have multiple runways, some of which can accommodate simultaneous takeoffs and landings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These runways serve a unique purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,604,3960,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-runway","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233798,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233797\/revisions\/233798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}