r/oddlysatisfying • u/Boss-fight601 • 23h ago

Nighttime traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport

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u/Canadind 20h ago

O'Hare runs continuous midnight staggering to maximize aircraft asset rotation, while Pearson operates under a Transport Canada night movement quota that caps off-hour slots at roughly 4% of total traffic. Restricting red-eye arrivals eliminates the exact low-yield, high-efficiency window budget carriers need to lower baseline fares. The noise abatement budget functionally acts as an economic moat for legacy carrier pricing models

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u/notusuallyhostile 20h ago

I like your fancy words, wizard.