MDW Chicago

How deep the MDW board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MDW. This reads the same 208 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 144of the 208 destinations are flown by one airline
• 131destinations run less than once a day
• 26destinations have four or more departures a day
• 38.5%of the destinations name NetJets Aviation, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MDW

60 airlines appear on the MDW board and they do not hold it evenly. NetJets Aviation is on 80 of the 208 destinations, 38.5 per cent of them, and on 45 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 75.5 of the 305.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Southwest Airlines on 75 destinations. 31 of the 60 airlines at MDW appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at MDW: one airline on 38.5 per cent of the destinations and the other 61.5 per cent spread across 59 airlines. A cancellation inside the NetJets Aviation network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 128 destinations NetJets Aviation does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the MDW board is daily

Of the 208 destinations, 77 are flown at least once a day and 131 are not, 71 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MDW board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MDW to Wisconsin Rapids (ISW) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 43.7 of the 305.1 departures a day, 14.3 per cent of the whole board. With 63 per cent of the 208 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Akita AXT	Japan	Jet Linx Aviation	1	9,751	plan this
Ann Arbor ARB	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	335	plan this
Appleton ATW	the United States	SCJ	1	282	plan this
Aspen ASE	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,638	plan this
Atlanta PDK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	930	plan this
Auburn AUO	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,040	plan this
Bahía Negra BFA	Paraguay	NetJets Aviation	1	7,537	plan this
Bellaire ACB	the United States	PlaneSense	1	412	plan this
Boca Raton BCT	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,850	plan this
Branson BKG	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	749	plan this

The ten destinations out of MDW where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 96 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MDW

The desk holds the return direction for 48 of the 208 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into MDW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Atlanta (ATL) at 10.6 out a day against 4.9 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 1.1 a day back into MDW against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MDW

MDW keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at MDW, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where MDW turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 27 airport pair pages that start or end at MDW, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Chicago to Minneapolis (MSP), Chicago to Dallas (DAL) and Chicago to Nashville (BNA).

Twelve courier postings name MDW as the airport a courier here flies from: Aurora, Joliet and Elgin.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MDW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 208 destinations above.