Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
MDW
Airport information
Chicago Midway International Airport
Chicago, United StatesIATA: MDWICAO: KMDW
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
4 runways · Longest runway: 6,522 ft
- 13L/31R6,522 ft · heading 134/314 degrees
- 04R/22L6,445 ft · heading 43/223 degrees
- 04L/22R5,507 ft · heading 43/223 degrees
- 13R/31L3,859 ft · heading 134/314 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
ATLUnited States
Atlanta
- Distance
- 592 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 23m
- Airlines
Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · +3
Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · Frontier Airlines · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines
MSPUnited States
Minneapolis
- Distance
- 348 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 5m
- Airlines
Air Alsie · Air Transport · +10
Air Alsie · Air Transport · Columbia Air · Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · Flightstar Corporation · Saga Airlines · Sevastopol-Avia · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines · United Airlines · USAF Special Air Mission
PHXUnited States
Phoenix
- Distance
- 1,441 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 21m
- Airlines
Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · +1
Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Southwest Airlines
MCOUnited States
Orlando
- Distance
- 991 mi
- Estimated duration
- 2h 6m
- Airlines
Aerolíneas Ejecutivas · Avient Air Zambia · +3
Aerolíneas Ejecutivas · Avient Air Zambia · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Southwest Airlines
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- ChicagoChicago O'Hare International AirportORD15 mi259 destinations
- GaryGary/Chicago International AirportGYY21 mi13 destinations
- South BendSouth Bend International AirportSBN74 mi31 destinations
- ChicagoChicago Rockford International AirportRFD75 mi61 destinations
- MilwaukeeGeneral Mitchell International AirportMKE81 mi88 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Chicago Midway International Airport
- City and country
- Chicago, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- MDW / KMDW
- Time zone
- America/Chicago
- Terminal
- A, B, C
- Category
- Major airport
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
MDW Airport: Chicago Midway Live Flight Status
MDW Airport is Chicago Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW, ICAO: KMDW), a large airport serving the city of Chicago in the United States. It appears in our database among the United States airports and in our own 30-day traffic measurement, which is the source for every figure below. The live radar near the top of this page answers the immediate question of what is flying in and out of Midway right now, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above it list each flight with its times and status. The sections below add what neither can show: how much MDW traffic our receivers logged over the past 30 days, which carrier dominates that data, and which airports around Chicago serve as alternatives.
Midway in our own 30-day measurement
The figures in this section come from our own reception measurement, not from official airport statistics. Over a 30-day period, our receivers recorded an average of 8.9 aircraft observations per day near Chicago Midway, which our database places at 41.786 N, 87.7524 W. That rate puts MDW in the average band of the airports we measure, a modest figure for a field that our database classes as a large airport. The busiest window in the measurement fell between 01:00 and 03:00 UTC. Our measuring clock runs in UTC rather than Chicago local time, so read that window as the two hours in which our receivers logged the most Midway traffic, not as a statement about the small hours at the terminal.
One airline sets the tone
The airline mix at Midway Airport is strikingly one-sided in our data. Southwest Airlines accounted for 178 observations in 30 days. Set against the runner-up, Frontier Airlines with 13 observations in the same measurement, that means more than nine out of ten of the observations we attributed to these two carriers belonged to Southwest. You can follow Southwest beyond Midway on our Southwest flight status page, and Frontier's live overview is on the Frontier Airlines flight status page. Those airline pages are the better route when you follow one carrier across several airports; for a single Midway flight, the arrivals or departures page linked above the radar remains the fastest way to an answer.
Alternatives around Chicago
Midway is not the only airport in the Chicago area. Chicago O'Hare International Airport lies 25 km from MDW, and Gary/Chicago International Airport sits 34 km away. Farther out, our database also lists South Bend International Airport at 119 km, a distance that makes it a fallback rather than a routine alternative. If a flight does not show up on the Midway arrivals or departures page, or you want to look beyond the Chicago area, continue on our airport overview.