Airportman.id – O'Hare International Airport (ORD) is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 2021, O'Hare Airport became the fourth busiest airport in the world by the number of passengers (54,020,399 passengers) and became the second busiest based on takeoff and landing (684,201 aircraft movements) according to Airport Council International (ACI) data. Even in 2019, O'Hare Airport became the busiest airport globally based on takeoff and landing, reaching 919,704 aircraft movements.

One of the reasons why O'Hare Airport is able to serve so many aircraft movements is that it has the largest number of runways in the world, which is eight!



The eight runways consist of two sets of parallel runways, three each on the north and south sides (east-west direction), and two crosswind runways in the northeast-southwest direction, which are also on the north and south sides. . One of the crosswind runways (4L/22R) in the north intersects with runways 9R/27L and 9C/27C.

Because there are eight runways and a high number of aircraft movements, O'Hare has three Control Towers, which are respectively in the north, center, and the most recent in the south.

The following is a breakdown of the eight runways by direction, dimensions, strength, and the year they were first operated: