OHare International Airport :: Chicago Airport

A plan to expand OHare internationalist Airport has begun to look more than promising, butbackers of a proposed aerodrome approximately Peotone utter last week they dont expect the plan tochange the dig over a third airport. "Its simmer down not going to increase air capa metropolis, and wont solve their long-range problem," expressDon Goff, chairman of the trey Airport Alliance. "I dont see it as any setback," he utter of the plan to build more terminals and gates. Goff said that even if OHare expansion proponents posterior use the World Gateway projectto justify building more runways, a third airport will still be needed. "Theyre still going to claim to build another airport," Goff said. But those who hope plans for an airport near rural Peotone will be scrapped see the planas a sign of hope. "Im very happy about that," said Jill Holzaepfel of Peotone, who said she hopes the planesand traffic stay close to the city. "I chose to live out present on the farmland," she said, adding that those who are impacted bymore noise and contaminant at an expanding OHare chose to live near the airport. Some Peotone opponents propose expanding the airport in Gary, Ind., or building atanother site. The major airlines that serve OHare outside(a) Airport and city officials reached atentative agreement to move in advance with a $3.2 billion renovation at the worlds secondbusiest airport, a city spokeswoman said. Mayor Richard Daley has called the project the "World Gateway Program." It hasinvolved months of negotiations between the city and the two major carriers that serveOHare United Airlines and American Airlines. "Right now, we have an agreement in principle," Chicago Department of Aviationspokeswoman Monique Bond said Friday night. "We feel confident that were movingforward and we are pretty sanguine about the finality of the agreement." The renovation, which is pass judgment to take eight y ears to complete, is expected to increasethe number of boarding gates by at least 25 percent. It is also intended to increase thenumber of flights and make connections in and out of the airport smoother. "This is basically what we are doing to better use the alert facility with moreefficiency," Bond said. She said the redesign will booster accommodate the airlines increaseduse of larger planes, such as the Boeing 777. turn Bond would not confirm the number of new gates involved, a report appearing innext weeks Crains Chicago Business cites sources acquainted(predicate) with the negotiations saying