MDW — Chicago Midway International Airport

IATA code

MDW

ICAO code

KMDW

City code

CHI

All Chicago airports

Passengers

19,111,013

Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

Nonstop routes

117

With open traffic data

Time zone

UTC−6 / UTC−5

America/Chicago

Elevation

189 m

620 ft

Runways

4

Longest 1,988 m

Local time now: —

More codes: airport codes starting with M

About MDW

Chicago Midway International Airport is a large airport serving Chicago, United States. It opened in 1923. 19,111,013 passengers used it in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Open traffic data shows 117 nonstop routes from MDW. On tickets, the city code CHI covers it together with the other Chicago airports.

Wikidata (CC0) · US BTS T-100. Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from MDW

Airlines at MDW

• WN Southwest Airlines · 138,007 flights
• F9 Frontier Airlines · 3,431 flights
• Y4 Concesionaria Vuela Compania De Aviacion SA de CV (Volaris) · 2,879 flights
• DL Delta Air Lines · 2,650 flights
• 9E Endeavor Air · 2,204 flights
• OO SkyWest Airlines · 1,992 flights
• P3 Porter Airlines Inc. (PAI) · 922 flights
• G4 Allegiant Air · 639 flights

Departures and arrivals on scheduled passenger flights, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Sources

Punctuality

Departures on time

71.8%

Within 15 minutes of schedule

Cancelled

1.5%

Departures counted

73,744

US domestic flights

US domestic flights of the larger US airlines, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance. Sources

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Distance from MDW to the major hubs

Runways

OurAirports (public domain). Sources