Eat It, Chi-Town

From AJC:

Atlanta's airport, already the world's busiest in terms of people, is on the way toward becoming the busiest for flights as well.

Hartsfield-Jackson International handled 497,019 flights in the first six months of the year, Federal Aviation Administration officials said Friday.

Its closest competitor, Chicago's O'Hare, handled 483,473.

Hartsfield-Jackson has been the busiest in people terms for several years, handling 83 million last year. But O'Hare had retained the busiest title for flights until now.

One reason for the switch is that the FAA has told airlines to cut schedules at O'Hare to reduce peak-time delays there. Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines has added flights in Atlanta as part of a restructuring.

Chicago officials point out that their city has a second commercial airport, Chicago-Midway, while Atlanta does not.

We can ignore that last sentence in the article... for now...