{"id":350861,"date":"2026-01-18T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chicago-turfwar-american-united-battle-supremacy-ohare\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:00:17","slug":"chicago-turfwar-inside-american-and-uniteds-battle-for-supremacy-at-ohare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350861","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Turfwar: Inside American And United&#8217;s Battle For Supremacy At O&#8217;Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago-O&#8217;Hare International Airport (ORD) is not just a mega-airport, but also one of the only places in the United States where two legacy airlines can go toe-to-toe at true airport hub scale. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> and United Airlines, the latter of which is headquartered in Chicago itself, are in the midst of one of the highest-stakes and most well-documented turf wars in the American aviation industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two carriers continue to jostle for market share.<\/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":[396,604,1003,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350861","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=350861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350862,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350861\/revisions\/350862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}