iniBuilds Chicago O'Hare (KORD) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Coming Soon!

Welcome to Chicago O'Hare (KORD)!✈️

Recently we unveiled our upcoming rendition of Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Today, we're excited to take a closer look at one of North America's most iconic aviation hubs and showcase what's coming soon!

As one of the busiest airports in the world, Chicago O'Hare is a destination that never stands still. From the constant stream of domestic traffic to heavy international arrivals and departures, the airport offers an incredible variety of operations around the clock. Recreating that scale, atmosphere and operational complexity has been one of our biggest airport projects to date, with every terminal, concourse and airside area carefully crafted to deliver an immersive experience while maintaining excellent performance.

Behind the Scenes

During development, one of our team members took a trip out to Chicago O'Hare, giving us the opportunity to gather an additional collection of up-to-date photographic references from around the airport. These images helped validate numerous areas across the scenery, from terminal finishes and gate equipment to signage, landside details and smaller environmental features.

Combined with extensive research and the team's ongoing development work, these references allowed us to refine countless details throughout the airport, ensuring the final product closely reflects today's O'Hare.

As development progressed, every area of the airport continued to receive attention, from the vast terminal buildings and cargo facilities through to maintenance areas, support buildings and the extensive network of taxiways connecting the airport together.

Introducing iniBuilds Multi-Jetway Technology

Chicago O'Hare also becomes the first airport to feature our brand-new iniBuilds Multi-Jetway Technology.

Compatible aircraft can now connect to multiple passenger boarding bridges simultaneously, creating a far more authentic boarding & turnaround experience at selected gates. Whether you're operating a widebody international departure or arriving after a long-haul flight, multiple jetways help bring the scale of modern hub operations to life like never before. This new technology has been built to support future iniBuilds airport releases and will also be introduced to selected existing airports where suitable.

You can read a full breakdown of how Multi-Jetway Technology works, supported aircraft and compatible gates in our dedicated forum post here.

Scenery Features

• Hand-crafted ground textures with bespoke runway, taxiway, apron and landside materials

• Introducing iniBuilds Multi-Jetway Technology for compatible aircraft

• True-to-life landside recreation with custom decals, vegetation, barriers and infrastructure

• Accurately modelled and positioned dynamic airport lighting

• Hundreds of handcrafted buildings, jetways, vehicles and bespoke airport objects

• Highly detailed terminals and concourses with bespoke textures throughout

• Full HD ground polygon matching the latest real-world airport layout

• Up-to-date 2026 airport layout

• Bespoke taxi signage built to real-world specifications

• Official GSX profile included

• Optimised LODs across every model for excellent performance

• Built using the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 SDK features

• Full iniManager compatibility

Routes & Carriers 🌎

Chicago O'Hare isn't just one of the busiest airports in the world, it's one of the most connected. Serving as a major hub for both United Airlines and American Airlines, alongside dozens of international and regional carriers, O'Hare offers an enormous variety of operations at every hour of the day.

Whether you're flying a short regional hop across the Midwest, a busy domestic shuttle to New York or Los Angeles, or a long-haul service to Europe, Asia, the Middle East or South America, O'Hare provides almost endless route possibilities.

From narrowbody workhorses and regional aircraft to the world's largest widebodies, the airport sees an incredible mix of traffic every single day, making it an ideal destination for every type of pilot.

Watch the Chicago O'Hare Trailer 🎥

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm throughout development. We're incredibly proud of what the team has created, and we can't wait for you to experience one of the world's busiest aviation hubs for yourself. Whether you're flying a quick regional hop, a busy domestic service, or a long-haul international route, Chicago O'Hare offers endless possibilities. We look forward to seeing where your next flight takes you!

iniBuilds Team ❤️