The unbridled growth of American Airlines and United Airlines at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD) is over for now.
Following a rapid run-up in schedules this summer as the airlines fought to preserve gate access, the Federal Aviation Administration called a pause. The regulator, citing schedules that exceed the total daily runway capacity of ORD, said in a Federal Register notice on Tuesday that it plans to cap total daily operations at the airport in order to avoid severe "delays, cancellations, and inconvenience to the traveling public."
The rub? Getting airlines — primarily American and United, which dominate O'Hare — to reduce schedules to no more than 2,800 daily operations, down from as many as 3,080 operations on peak days this summer.
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