Chicago O'Hare seeing operations boost from new runways

Still years away from completion, the Chicago O'Hare Modernization Program already is reducing delays at the world's second-busiest airport. New Runway 9L-27R and the 3,000-ft. extension to runway 10L-27R, as well as the new north ATC tower, all opened last year, improved the airport's ontime arrival rate by 22%, according to the Chicago Dept. of Aviation. The program, now estimated to cost $8.7 billion, will replace the airport's seven runways--all but one of them intersecting--with two ...