Mayor Kasim Reed may be concerned about unseating New York in terms of international air destinations among U.S. airports, but Atlanta’s real connectivity rival may be Chicago, according to a new report out by OAG, an aviation insights company.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this year was unseated by Chicago O’Hare as the most-connected “megahub” in the world, judging by an index constructed by measuring an airport’s possible connections combined with its number of destinations in a six-hour window, according to OAG. Chicago Midway was also named the most connected low-cost megahub in the world, according to the report released Nov. 30.
This comes a year after O’Hare took Atlanta’s spot as the busiest airport by number of flights arriving and departing, a metric known as “operations.” Atlanta, which became the first airport in history to attract 100 million passengers in a year…Read more on Airport City ATL.