Chicago O'Hare named the busiest airport in America
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | None of them are busy today. Many of them are shut down, but let's talk about airports across the |
| 0:36.8 | country. |
| 0:44.9 | And you've got what Atlanta was always known as the busiest airport in the country because it was a hub for Southwest, right? |
| 0:45.5 | Delta. |
| 0:54.2 | And so, yeah, yeah, for the last, geez, 10, 15, 20 years, Atlanta Hartsfield Airport has been the busiest, not only in the country, but in the world because it's a hub for Delta, which is one of the largest. It's the main hub for Delta, but it's also a hub for a lot of |
| 0:58.8 | other airlines. And so when you've got that, everybody making their connecting flight on the |
| 1:03.3 | East Coast has to fly and connect through Atlanta. And so yeah, Atlanta's been the busiest |
| 1:07.6 | airport in the world for decades now. Not anymore. Lost the crown. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | There's a new busier airport, and it is Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. |
| 1:17.6 | Now the busiest airport in the country, and that's based on total aircraft takeoffs and landings. |
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