$8.7 BILLION AGREEMENT TO TRANSFORM O’HARE
In spring 2018, Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed a historic $8.7 billion plan to modernize Chicago O’Hare International Airport. To be developed over the next eight years, the program will create 60,000 construction jobs and tens of thousands of permanent jobs.

By 2026, the Terminal Area Plan will completely redevelop the existing terminals, with expanded gates and facilities at Terminal 5; the redevelopment of Terminal 2 into the O’Hare Global Terminal; and renovations and expanded concourses to Terminals 1 and 3.

Among the improvements to customer experience are reduced flight delays, expanded travel options, new security screening upgrades, new self-service technologies, state-of-the-art baggage systems and more concessions, departure lounges and public amenities.

NEW GATES
As the first step of the terminal expansion plan, in May, Mayor Emanuel and Doug Parker, CEO, American Airlines, celebrated the opening of five new gates at O’Hare International Airport. The $78 million investment extended Terminal 3’s L Concourse and was the first major gate expansion at the airport in 25 years.

The new gates will improve on-time performance and offer greater connectivity for domestic and international destinations served by American Airlines.

MOST MODERN AND EFFICIENT AIRFIELD IN THE U.S.
The multibillion O’Hare Modernization Program has reconfigured O’Hare’s intersecting runway layout into a modern, parallel runway system that allows for the airport terminal expansion while significantly reducing delays and increasing capacity. O’Hare’s on-time performance has vastly improved since OMP began, with delays decreasing by more than 60 percent.

NEW ROUTES
More than 50 airlines at O’Hare provide service to more than 230 destinations worldwide, including 46 countries. With 17 international routes announced or launched in 2018 so far, O’Hare ranks first among the 15 largest U.S. international gateway airports in terms of net new international services added. This year O’Hare adds new nonstop international services to destinations not previously served from Chicago including Ethiopia, Auckland and Bogota. By the end of 2018, Chicago will be one of only five cities globally to have nonstop passenger air service to all six major inhabited regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America).

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