{"id":414820,"date":"2026-04-27T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-united-airlines-chicago-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:00:18","slug":"major-american-united-airlines-cut-2700-may-flights-from-the-worlds-busiest-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414820","title":{"rendered":"Major: American &amp; United Airlines Cut 2,700 May Flights From The World&#8217;s Busiest Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259641\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-international-airport\/\"  >Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ATL) has long been the world&#8217;s busiest airport by passenger numbers, <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) takes the top spot <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2051971\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/busiest-airport-midwest\/\" >when ranked by aircraft movements<\/a><\/span>. A key reason behind this paradox is the increased use of regional jets at O&#8217;Hare, with feeder services allowing passengers from the Midwest and beyond to connect onto mainline flights operated by major US legacy carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These developments are part of a wider initiative that aims to address overscheduling.<\/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":[396,476,636,605,604,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-chicago","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414820","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=414820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414821,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414820\/revisions\/414821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}