Federal officials have ordered Chicago O’Hare International Airport to cut approximately 300 flights per day during the busy summer travel season to curb widespread delays.
O’Hare, the nation’s busiest airport by flight volume, had scheduled more than 3,080 flights on peak summer days in 2026 — a 15 percent increase from 2025 — even as fewer than 60 percent of last summer’s arrivals and departures ran on time.
