{"id":320882,"date":"2025-11-22T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-chicago-dominant-hub-airport-us\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:00:15","slug":"why-chicago-ohare-is-the-most-dominant-hub-airport-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=320882","title":{"rendered":"Why Chicago O&#8217;Hare Is The Most Dominant Hub Airport In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263837\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-ohare-international-airport\/\"  >Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ORD) was named the number one most connected airport in the United States and seventh worldwide, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag.com\/megahubs-airports-2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Official Aviation Guide<\/a> (OAG) 2025 Megahubs Index. On the airport&#8217;s busiest day of the year, Chicago O&#8217;Hare offers connections to 214 domestic destinations, more than any other airport in the US. The airport receives more than 100 million passengers per year. Let&#8217;s find out why this is the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most connected hub in the US, with millions of passengers passing through each month.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320882","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=320882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320883,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320882\/revisions\/320883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}