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CHICAGO (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday extended by two years a cap on the number of flights into O'Hare International Airport in an effort to curtail delays at one of the world's busiest airports.
Domestic airlines will continue to be limited to a combined 88 arrivals per hour between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. until Oct. 31, 2008 — at which point the FAA expects Chicago to have completed the first runway associated with O'Hare's planned $15 billion expansion.
O'Hare's last-place ranking in on-time performance among the busiest 31 U.S. airports in 2004 first prompted the FAA to impose the cap.
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