American Airlines dropped a bombshell this morning that could imperil the Chicago Mayoral $8.5 billion plan to expand and modernize Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
It’s a plan the mayor and the Chicago Department of Aviation commissioner unveiled to one of the Chicago Tribune’s political reporters on Sunday.
This morning, American, which has its third-largest hub at O’Hare, said — in no uncertain terms — it would not sign off on a new lease at O’Hare or on the massive O’Hare expansion Emanuel is proposing unless the city is prepared to rework the deal and make the gate distribution at the expanded airport more equitable than it would be as the proposal now stands.
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American Airlines angry over O’Hare expansion plan
