Chicago Aviation Thread - 2022

se210 · Wed May 04, 2022 1:10 am

se210 wrote:
Dubai Air Wing A6-COM 747-433M flew in yesterday from ROC ...

ROC >> RST (Rochester, MN)

glbltrvlr · Wed May 04, 2022 2:37 am

se210 wrote:
se210 wrote:
Dubai Air Wing A6-COM 747-433M flew in yesterday from ROC ...

ROC >> RST (Rochester, MN)

Ahh... Mayo Clinic visit for one of the royal family then...

gabik001 · Wed May 04, 2022 2:08 pm

glbltrvlr wrote:
se210 wrote:
se210 wrote:
Dubai Air Wing A6-COM 747-433M flew in yesterday from ROC ...

ROC >> RST (Rochester, MN)

Ahh... Mayo Clinic visit for one of the royal family then...

Possibly refueling at ORD and fly back home. Why is always crappy weather at ORD when things like this comes?

Oceanic · Wed May 04, 2022 4:54 pm

glbltrvlr wrote:
se210 wrote:
se210 wrote:
Dubai Air Wing A6-COM 747-433M flew in yesterday from ROC ...

ROC >> RST (Rochester, MN)

Ahh... Mayo Clinic visit for one of the royal family then...

I saw the Qatar A340-300 parked on the ramp when I flew home from London yesterday, maybe some sort of shindig in town

yeogeo · Thu May 05, 2022 1:32 am

The O'Hare > Europe high season begins to gather momentum.

Tomorrow May 5 sees American resume its ORD-DUB flights joining a rather crowded field.
American will be operating DUB with B787's daily and United, also daily, is operating 757's.

EI operates ORD-DUB twice daily on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Wed and once daily on Thurs/Tues. using its A-330's

Then on Friday the 6th United inaugurates O'Hare to Milan Malpensa using B787's, operating daily.

ORDLHR787 · Thu May 05, 2022 3:04 am

Is BA bringing the whale back?

yeogeo · Thu May 05, 2022 10:50 am

ORDLHR787 wrote:
Is BA bringing the whale back?

Yup. June 1

ORDfan · Thu May 05, 2022 3:58 pm

So this happened today...anyone know which flight this was? Hope the pax didn't get too delayed.

Man slides off plane’s wing at O’Hare early Thursday morning:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/bre ... story.html

AmricanShamrok · Thu May 05, 2022 9:24 pm

yeogeo wrote:
The O'Hare > Europe high season begins to gather momentum.

Tomorrow May 5 sees American resume its ORD-DUB flights joining a rather crowded field.
American will be operating DUB with B787's daily and United, also daily, is operating 757's.

EI operates ORD-DUB twice daily on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Wed and once daily on Thurs/Tues. using its A-330's

Crowded indeed but still hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels when EI was 2x daily. Also, it wasn't that long ago that in addition to the 4x daily ORD-DUB, we had UA do a daily ORD-SNN. I'm still holding out hope one of the three carriers may resurrect that route one of these summers...

yeogeo · Fri May 06, 2022 12:09 am

AmricanShamrok wrote:
yeogeo wrote:
Tomorrow May 5 sees American resume its ORD-DUB flights joining a rather crowded field.
American will be operating DUB with B787's daily and United, also daily, is operating 757's. EI operates ORD-DUB twice daily on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Wed and once daily on Thurs/Tues. using its A-330's

Crowded indeed but still hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels when EI was 2x daily. Also, it wasn't that long ago that in addition to the 4x daily ORD-DUB, we had UA do a daily ORD-SNN. I'm still holding out hope one of the three carriers may resurrect that route one of these summers...

I'd forgotten all about the SNN route. What are the dynamics that justify ORD-SNN I'm wondering, do you know? And why no ORK ever, the busier airport and larger catchment area. Is SNN all about being an end-point for tours or do the Irish contribute to an appreciable extent? ..Is Cork just too close to DUB? Curious :confused:

AmricanShamrok · Fri May 06, 2022 12:56 pm

yeogeo wrote:
AmricanShamrok wrote:
yeogeo wrote:
Tomorrow May 5 sees American resume its ORD-DUB flights joining a rather crowded field.
American will be operating DUB with B787's daily and United, also daily, is operating 757's. EI operates ORD-DUB twice daily on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Wed and once daily on Thurs/Tues. using its A-330's

Crowded indeed but still hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels when EI was 2x daily. Also, it wasn't that long ago that in addition to the 4x daily ORD-DUB, we had UA do a daily ORD-SNN. I'm still holding out hope one of the three carriers may resurrect that route one of these summers...

I'd forgotten all about the SNN route. What are the dynamics that justify ORD-SNN I'm wondering, do you know? And why no ORK ever, the busier airport and larger catchment area. Is SNN all about being an end-point for tours or do the Irish contribute to an appreciable extent? ..Is Cork just too close to DUB? Curious

The ORD-SNN route has operated on and off since the 60s with various carriers with sometimes interesting intermediate stops like Montréal, Boston, Dublin etc. I think it's mostly due to the large western Irish diaspora in the Chicago area that made it appealing for carriers, along with golf tours/tours along the west coast targeted at American tourists etc.

The reasons why SNN has transatlantic ops and ORK doesn't is down to a few things; its legacy as being the last transit stop between Europe and North America before the jet age, a longstanding politically-motivated regulation before Open Skies which required a certain percentage of DUB-bound flights from North America to also serve SNN and, SNN got US Customs and Border Protection pre-inspection facilities in the 80s along with DUB (ORK didn't).

ORK has never really been used for transatlantic flights (and I don't think SNN and ORK viably could have transatlantic ops concurrently...maybe aside from a New York route).

se210 · Fri May 06, 2022 5:15 pm

First trip of AF B777F F-GUOB (operating as AFR6738) in the new cargo livery to ORD today (due in around 17:30 CDT).

Here's a comparison...

Completed painting (and scrubbing!) at TLS on 4/23/22 as seen in the left picture above. For the last couple of weeks AFR6738 has been operating with CMA CGM Air Cargo A330Fs.

Here's a comparison between the old Air France Cargo logo...

Source: http://www.kindpng.com

and the new one...

Source: http://www.afklcargo.com

yeogeo · Sat May 07, 2022 11:42 am

AmricanShamrok wrote:
The ORD-SNN route has operated on and off since the 60s with various carriers with sometimes interesting intermediate stops like Montréal, Boston, Dublin etc. I think it's mostly due to the large western Irish diaspora in the Chicago area that made it appealing for carriers, along with golf tours/tours along the west coast targeted at American tourists etc.

The reasons why SNN has transatlantic ops and ORK doesn't is down to a few things; its legacy as being the last transit stop between Europe and North America before the jet age, a longstanding politically-motivated regulation before Open Skies which required a certain percentage of DUB-bound flights from North America to also serve SNN and, SNN got US Customs and Border Protection pre-inspection facilities in the 80s along with DUB (ORK didn't).

ORK has never really been used for transatlantic flights (and I don't think SNN and ORK viably could have transatlantic ops concurrently...maybe aside from a New York route).

Thanks for the info, Shamrok; it's appreciated.
Looking ahead, If we don't see UA's 757's on the route, perhaps EI, UA or AA will use their A321XLR's on SNN-ORD - I believe we'll see those in operation starting next year?

gabik001 · Sat May 07, 2022 6:36 pm

Lufthansa restarted evening service FRA-ORD-FRA LH432/433 yesterday using A343 equipment. This flight was hold for 2 years (last operation was on March 13, 2020 on A333). It might happen that we will see A333 or B744 along with A343 in LH colors at ORD...

se210 · Sat May 07, 2022 8:35 pm

ORDfan wrote:
So this happened today...anyone know which flight this was? Hope the pax didn't get too delayed. Man slides off plane’s wing at O’Hare early Thursday morning

Another forum thread was started for this: Man opens emergency exit of moving plane, walks onto wing at O’Hare Airport
Here is a non-paywall newslink from WGN: https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/man-opens-emergency-exit-of-moving-plane-walks-onto-wing-at-ohare-airport/ which includes the following statement from United Airlines:

United Airlines Statement wrote:
This morning United flight 2478 was taxiing toward the gate at Chicago O'Hare when a passenger opened an aircraft door and exited the plane. Our ground crew stopped the individual outside of the aircraft, and the person is now with law enforcement."

It was UAL2478 SAN-ORD. This would make it N69847 B737-924/ER.

ADS-B Exchange shows N69847 approaching Gate B3 at 04:24:50 CDT (09:24:56Z) on Thursday Morning (5/5/2022). The flight status from United shows the arrival at gate B3 was at 04:44 and noted it was 20 minutes late. So it looks like there was about a 20 minute delay from the time the man exited the plane to the time UA2478 finally docked at B3.

The next flight for this aircraft was UAL1888 from ORD-LAS. United shows it departed 3 minutes early at 08:58. ADB-B Exchange shows N69847 departed from B3 and took off for LAS on Runway 9C.

gabik001 · Sat May 07, 2022 9:31 pm

se210 wrote:
ORDfan wrote:
So this happened today...anyone know which flight this was? Hope the pax didn't get too delayed. Man slides off plane’s wing at O’Hare early Thursday morning

Another forum thread was started for this: Man opens emergency exit of moving plane, walks onto wing at O’Hare Airport
Here is a non-paywall newslink from WGN: https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/man-opens-emergency-exit-of-moving-plane-walks-onto-wing-at-ohare-airport/ which includes the following statement from United Airlines:

United Airlines Statement wrote:
This morning United flight 2478 was taxiing toward the gate at Chicago O'Hare when a passenger opened an aircraft door and exited the plane. Our ground crew stopped the individual outside of the aircraft, and the person is now with law enforcement."

It was UAL2478 SAN-ORD. This would make it N69847 B737-924/ER.

ADS-B Exchange shows N69847 approaching Gate B3 at 04:24:50 CDT (09:24:56Z) on Thursday Morning (5/5/2022). The flight status from United shows the arrival at gate B3 was at 04:44 and noted it was 20 minutes late. So it looks like there was about a 20 minute delay from the time the man exited the plane to the time UA2478 finally docked at B3.

The next flight for this aircraft was UAL1888 from ORD-LAS. United shows it departed 3 minutes early at 08:58. ADB-B Exchange shows N69847 departed from B3 and took off for LAS on Runway 9C.

I saw short footage on tiktok after incident with ATC conversation.

AmricanShamrok · Sun May 08, 2022 2:33 pm

yeogeo wrote:
AmricanShamrok wrote:
The ORD-SNN route has operated on and off since the 60s with various carriers with sometimes interesting intermediate stops like Montréal, Boston, Dublin etc. I think it's mostly due to the large western Irish diaspora in the Chicago area that made it appealing for carriers, along with golf tours/tours along the west coast targeted at American tourists etc.

The reasons why SNN has transatlantic ops and ORK doesn't is down to a few things; its legacy as being the last transit stop between Europe and North America before the jet age, a longstanding politically-motivated regulation before Open Skies which required a certain percentage of DUB-bound flights from North America to also serve SNN and, SNN got US Customs and Border Protection pre-inspection facilities in the 80s along with DUB (ORK didn't).

ORK has never really been used for transatlantic flights (and I don't think SNN and ORK viably could have transatlantic ops concurrently...maybe aside from a New York route).

Thanks for the info, Shamrok; it's appreciated.
Looking ahead, If we don't see UA's 757's on the route, perhaps EI, UA or AA will use their A321XLR's on SNN-ORD - I believe we'll see those in operation starting next year?

Hopefully. I thought AA might be most likely to pick it up again when the 321XLRs arrive but I count only a handful of AA summer European routes out of ORD this summer so I don't know if they'd interested after all...also, it might eat into their PHL-SNN yields (scheduled to restart in S23).

yeogeo · Sun May 08, 2022 9:26 pm

Classic O'Hare

Nice shot Jike!

yeogeo · Sun May 08, 2022 9:32 pm

AmricanShamrok wrote:
yeogeo wrote:
Looking ahead, If we don't see UA's 757's on the route, perhaps EI, UA or AA will use their A321XLR's on SNN-ORD - I believe we'll see those in operation starting next year?

Hopefully. I thought AA might be most likely to pick it up again when the 321XLRs arrive but I count only a handful of AA summer European routes out of ORD this summer so I don't know if they'd interested after all...also, it might eat into their PHL-SNN yields (scheduled to restart in S23).

Would be nice to see EI XLR's at O'Hare to mix it up with the 330's!
Have they shown much interest for SNN transatlantic hops?

yeogeo · Sun May 08, 2022 9:41 pm

gabik001 wrote:
Lufthansa restarted evening service FRA-ORD-FRA LH432/433 yesterday using A343 equipment. This flight was hold for 2 years (last operation was on March 13, 2020 on A333). It might happen that we will see A333 or B744 along with A343 in LH colors at ORD...

...but no A350's anymore, unfortunately. Didn't we see them during covid?

yeogeo · Sun May 08, 2022 10:23 pm

yeogeo wrote:
gabik001 wrote:
Lufthansa restarted evening service FRA-ORD-FRA LH432/433 yesterday using A343 equipment. This flight was hold for 2 years (last operation was on March 13, 2020 on A333). It might happen that we will see A333 or B744 along with A343 in LH colors at ORD...

...but no A350's anymore, unfortunately. Didn't we see them during covid?

Wait wait! MUC-ORD is still A350.... Plus there's 777 LH Cargo so you could conceivably see A333, A343, A350, B 777F and B748's in one day at O'Hare.

leo777 · Mon May 09, 2022 2:03 am

I saw a UA A321 landing at MDW today, the flight was BOS-MDW was it some sort of charter?

gabik001 · Mon May 09, 2022 3:18 am

yeogeo wrote:
gabik001 wrote:
Lufthansa restarted evening service FRA-ORD-FRA LH432/433 yesterday using A343 equipment. This flight was hold for 2 years (last operation was on March 13, 2020 on A333). It might happen that we will see A333 or B744 along with A343 in LH colors at ORD...

...but no A350's anymore, unfortunately. Didn't we see them during covid?

Its LH432/433 which used to be B748 formerly (I flown on that flight 4 years ago) FRA-ORD-FRA along with earlier afternoon flight LH430/431 (B748) on the same route.
A350 is serving MUC-ORD as LH434/435.

gabik001 · Mon May 09, 2022 3:27 am

yeogeo wrote:
yeogeo wrote:
gabik001 wrote:
Lufthansa restarted evening service FRA-ORD-FRA LH432/433 yesterday using A343 equipment. This flight was hold for 2 years (last operation was on March 13, 2020 on A333). It might happen that we will see A333 or B744 along with A343 in LH colors at ORD...

...but no A350's anymore, unfortunately. Didn't we see them during covid?

Wait wait! MUC-ORD is still A350.... Plus there's 777 LH Cargo so you could conceivably see A333, A343, A350, B 777F and B748's in one day at O'Hare.

I meant A333 or A343 as LH432.
No more LH1592/1593 on A343...
And hopefrully Dreamliner by LH soon.

OMP777X · Mon May 09, 2022 3:28 am

leo777 wrote:
I saw a UA A321 landing at MDW today, the flight was BOS-MDW was it some sort of charter?

That was probably the White Sox coming back from Boston

alpine1989 · Mon May 09, 2022 11:59 am

OMP777X wrote:
leo777 wrote:
I saw a UA A321 landing at MDW today, the flight was BOS-MDW was it some sort of charter?

That was probably the White Sox coming back from Boston

It was an A320. United doesn’t the A321.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KBOS/KMDW

se210 · Tue May 10, 2022 3:54 pm

USAF C17 95-0102 just landed at ORD on 28C (Flight DEED180). Support aircraft for President Biden's visit to Chicago tomorrow (5/11/22).
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se210 · Tue May 10, 2022 5:35 pm

USAF C17 89-1192 also landed at ORD (Flight RCH3249) today (5/10/22) at around 10:38. Both C-17s had quick turnarounds and have left ORD already.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae07d0

gabik001 · Tue May 10, 2022 6:22 pm

POTUS is expected to land tomorrow between 10:30am and noon local as per FAA TFR's so basically it will be roughly at 11. Departure of Air Force One is expected around 6pm. I am assuming that both C-17's will return to ORD around departure time.

se210 · Wed May 11, 2022 3:24 pm

gabik001 wrote:
POTUS is expected to land tomorrow between 10:30am and noon local as per FAA TFR's so basically it will be roughly at 11. Departure of Air Force One is expected around 6pm. I am assuming that both C-17's will return to ORD around departure time.

AF1 VC-25A 82-8000 looks to be landing at ORD around 11:05-11:10-ish.
Also a C-32A 09-0016 tagging 5-10 minutes behind.

se210 · Wed May 11, 2022 4:22 pm

Se210 wrote:
AF1 VC-25A 82-8000 looks to be landing at ORD around 11:05-11:10-ish.

AF1 VC-25A 82-8000 landed at ORD on runway 9C at 11:07 and is parked at the Scenic Hold Pad (north side) as usual.
C-32A 09-0016 ended up in Peoria (just like the last time AF1 was at ORD). It is the backup/emergency aircraft for AF1 and will depart PIA as soon as AF1 leaves ORD.

gabik001 · Wed May 11, 2022 6:04 pm

Ospreys came like 30 minutes before AF1 arrival. Sea Kings came 10 minutes after Ospreys. All helicopters departed at 11:40 south over airfield then turned east over rwy 9R.

se210 · Thu May 12, 2022 12:02 am

N1 landed at ORD this evening. Thought this would have been a FAA aircraft but apparently it is a Cessna 680 owned by Tenax Aerospace LLC. To quote Napoleon Dynamite: "Sweet registration and ICAO Mode S Hex code (a00001)!"

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a00001&lat=39.621&lon=-84.959&zoom=6.5&showTrace=2022-05-11&leg=4&trackLabels
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N1

No pictures of the "new" N1 in Airliners.net but here are some previous FAA N1 aircraft...

se210 · Thu May 12, 2022 12:19 am

gabik001 wrote:
I am assuming that both C-17's will return to ORD around departure time.

As expected, the C17 "pickup" crew to ORD after AF1 left...
KECK210 C-17 89-1192
RCH3274 C17 01-0191

gabik001 · Thu May 12, 2022 1:58 am

KECK210 landed on 10R (seems like both landed there) which was difficult to guess.Saw her on downwind but was on the other side of he airport. My bet was 9C. Anyway most of us were waiting at Security building parking lot (NE corner by northeast cargo) for Ospreys and SeaKings arrival and AF1 departure. On my way home saw Ospreys departed west possibly to DPA. Nice day though.

emcm541 · Fri May 13, 2022 3:54 pm

I am not sure if this has been posted or not (if duplicate, apologies), but looks like AA-eagle is adding weekly service to Martha's Vineyard from ORD.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/american- ... go-routes/

gabik001 · Sun May 15, 2022 8:01 pm

Yesterday at LOT1RK (B788) 30 min after boarding everyone in the plane were asked to de board aircraft. Flight departed with 4 hours delay. Anyone knows what happened?
Also today's LH430 (B748) did 2 missed approaches (10C and 9C) don't know why but finally landed at 9C.

se210 · Sun May 15, 2022 9:01 pm

FI853 switching from B737 to B757 starting today (Sunday 5/15). TS-ISX B757-3E7 due in ORD around 18:20 sporting the 100 Years Independence Livery.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ICE853
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fi853

According to flightradar24.com, it looks like TS-ISX will also be doing FI853 KEF-ORD on Monday (5/16) and Tuesday (5/17).

airstatdfw · Mon May 16, 2022 1:27 am

gabik001 wrote:
Yesterday at LOT1RK (B788) 30 min after boarding everyone in the plane were asked to de board aircraft. Flight departed with 4 hours delay. Anyone knows what happened?
Also today's LH430 (B748) did 2 missed approaches (10C and 9C) don't know why but finally landed at 9C.

LH430 went around on 10C due to FOD being reported by the previous arrival. They moved to Rwy 9C due to 10C needing an inspection and there was compression on final and the previous a/c didn’t clear the Rwy in time.

gabik001 · Mon May 16, 2022 1:36 am

airstatdfw wrote:
gabik001 wrote:
Yesterday at LOT1RK (B788) 30 min after boarding everyone in the plane were asked to de board aircraft. Flight departed with 4 hours delay. Anyone knows what happened?
Also today's LH430 (B748) did 2 missed approaches (10C and 9C) don't know why but finally landed at 9C.

LH430 went around on 10C due to FOD being reported by the previous arrival. They moved to Rwy 9C due to 10C needing an inspection and there was compression on final and the previous a/c didn’t clear the Rwy in time.

Thank to clarifying. I saw her after second g/a and it caught my attention.

se210 · Mon May 16, 2022 10:24 am

se210 wrote:
According to flightradar24.com, it looks like TS-ISX will also be doing FI853 KEF-ORD on Monday (5/16) and Tuesday (5/17).

Typo, meant TF-ISX.

gabik001 · Tue May 17, 2022 1:23 am

Today FI853 was operated on TF-FIX but looks like Tuesday we might see TF-ISX again.

yeogeo · Tue May 17, 2022 9:08 pm

Flair Airlines began its service between YYZ and O'Hare today.
According to FR24 the aircraft is still on the field (17May at 4pm), showing a very late departure back to Toronto.

WestJet, in what seems to be a deliberate challenge to Flair, will join the cross-border scrum on Friday, returning to O'Hare after several year's absence.

The current schedules shows F8 operating the 737-8 Max on one round trip every Tue/Thurs/Sat.

WS will operate Q400's on one round trip every Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon for the time being.

Am I mistaken that WestJet will be the only Dash 8 operator currently flying out of O'Hare?

scaledesigns · Tue May 17, 2022 9:29 pm

The Flair max parked at T5 gate M4 or M5 today and sat there. Not sure if it had a mtx issue or not. Bright colors contrast the dull US mainline colors.

se210 · Tue May 17, 2022 11:54 pm

scaledesigns wrote:
The Flair max parked at T5 gate M4 or M5 today and sat there. Not sure if it had a mtx issue or not. Bright colors contrast the dull US mainline colors.

The registration of the first scheduled F8 YYZ-ORD flight (F8106/FLE106) on 5/17/22 was B737-8 MAX C-FFEL #64942

Looks like it was supposed to leave ORD at 8:35 AM as F8107/FLE107 but is now showing a 9:00 PM departure. Maybe the crew wanted to get an inning or two of the Cubs game?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/c-ffel
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c00da8&lat=41.977&lon=-87.893&zoom=9.4&showTrace=2022-05-17&trackLabels

piedmontf284000 · Wed May 18, 2022 4:02 am

Flair 107 just left for YYZ at 2300. Only 14 hours behind schedule on their first day at O'Hare. They are off to a rather inauspicious start.

jcwr56 · Wed May 18, 2022 11:39 am

piedmontf284000 wrote:
Flair 107 just left for YYZ at 2300. Only 14 hours behind schedule on their first day at O'Hare. They are off to a rather inauspicious start.

Some issue with the L1 door from what I'm hearing.

jcwr56 · Wed May 18, 2022 11:43 am

yeogeo wrote:
Flair Airlines began its service between YYZ and O'Hare today.
According to FR24 the aircraft is still on the field (17May at 4pm), showing a very late departure back to Toronto.

WestJet, in what seems to be a deliberate challenge to Flair, will join the cross-border scrum on Friday, returning to O'Hare after several year's absence.

The current schedules shows F8 operating the 737-8 Max on one round trip every Tue/Thurs/Sat.

WS will operate Q400's on one round trip every Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon for the time being.

Am I mistaken that WestJet will be the only Dash 8 operator currently flying out of O'Hare?

I believe WestJet is daily and yes on the only Dash 8. Connect Air (if they ever get the approval to operate) would become the 2nd. Westjet will be ORD's first scheduled bussing operation in a long time. For some photo ops, they're planned to park on the hardstands.

se210 · Wed May 18, 2022 12:50 pm

jcwr56 wrote:
I believe WestJet is daily and yes on the only Dash 8. Connect Air (if they ever get the approval to operate) would become the 2nd. Westjet will be ORD's first scheduled bussing operation in a long time. For some photo ops, they're planned to park on the hardstands.

According to flightradar24.com (https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ws3674) and the Westjet Flight Status page (https://www.westjet.com/en-us/flights/status):

Westjet WS3674 YYZ-ORD on Thursday (5/19/2022) shows arriving at 16:26 at Terminal 5 Gate M20A (DHC-8-402 C-FOEN)

On 5/12/2022, Connect Airlines N881WM DHC-8-402 flew BED-ORD-PHL and was parked at the T5 hardstand. Perhaps more proving flights.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac238c&lat=41.831&lon=-80.581&zoom=6.0&showTrace=2022-05-12

jcwr56 · Thu May 19, 2022 10:29 am

se210 wrote:
jcwr56 wrote:
I believe WestJet is daily and yes on the only Dash 8. Connect Air (if they ever get the approval to operate) would become the 2nd. Westjet will be ORD's first scheduled bussing operation in a long time. For some photo ops, they're planned to park on the hardstands.

According to flightradar24.com (https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ws3674) and the Westjet Flight Status page (https://www.westjet.com/en-us/flights/status):

Westjet WS3674 YYZ-ORD on Thursday (5/19/2022) shows arriving at 16:26 at Terminal 5 Gate M20A (DHC-8-402 C-FOEN)

On 5/12/2022, Connect Airlines N881WM DHC-8-402 flew BED-ORD-PHL and was parked at the T5 hardstand. Perhaps more proving flights.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac238c&lat=41.831&lon=-80.581&zoom=6.0&showTrace=2022-05-12

20a is the temporary bussing gate until M13 is completed. The plane will park on Hardstand 104.

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