What would you say if ORD's name was changed to Daley Int'l?

[Flying High]

Speak your mind!!!

Not that it's going to happen, but what if...?

[Cubana]

Now, why Daley Int'l? Who was Mr Daley?

Cheers

[MCIFLYR]

That would be a horrific day in aviation, Daley is a money-hungry unrealistic bastard when it comes to aviation.

[Avianca 757]

Justa another BIG disappointment as the ones we've seen those days....
Meigs Field closing, Aces bankrupt....

For Cubana:
Daley is Chicago Mayor, who closed Meigs in a very coward way.
Meigs filed is that airport that appears by default on Flight Simulator.

[B757300]

He'd probably do it if he thought he could get away with it. Then again as long as he rules Chicago, he CAN get away with anything.

[screaming_emu]

I would honestly start calling it Douschbag International.

[philb]

As stupid as renaming Washington National and, the way these ego trippers work, just as likely

[FlyCharlestonSC]

"an airport with an ego"

[Air1727]

Only if they mispelled his name as Delay International...it would be appropriate for both parties...

[Triton1831]

I wouldn't care, it's only an airport.
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ELEANOR (1973 FORD MUSTANG)

[CO66]

Only if they mispelled his name as Delay International...it would be appropriate for both parties...

Ain't that the truth!!

[FlyCharlestonSC]

I wouldn't care, it's only an airport.

WOW!!!
I think some people in this forum would never say that!

[fristclass]

I wouldn't care, it's only an airport.

its only an airport, this forum is about people who love airplanes and with that comes airports. lol, delay internation would suck ass in my opinon. one time i was listening to this talk show and they were talkin about how O'hare got its name. i forget how it went but it had to do with some guy named o hare gettong shot at my gangsters or somthing

[philb]

For the second time in two days you post a half understood piece of second hand misinformation in this forum, allegedly picked up from somewhere else (see thread on shortest flight).

Chicago Orchard Field was renamed O'Hare in honour of Lt Edward O'Hare a WW2 Naval fighter pilot who became the firat American "ace" of the war on February 20 1943. He was killed in action on November 26 1943 in circumstances never fully explained - he may well have been hit by friendly fire.

O'Hare's father was gunned down by Al Capone's mob whilst O'Hare Jnr was at Pensacola NAS. It is thought that O'Hare Snr was a government informer.

[Myblock]

I find it bad enought that Washington National is named after Reagan and that Houston Intl is named after Bush. I will NEVER call those airports by those presidents names because they don't deserve to have an airport named after them. People who deserve to have an airport named after them are people who clear and defuse landmines and heroic stuff like that. Not sitting in an office all day ordering people to war.