It’s been a big week for O’Hare Airport.
O’Hare Airport this week updated its official Twitter profile and now describes itself as a “place of romance”. It comes after Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, joked with the press and said “don’t let anyone tell you O’Hare isn’t romantic.”
O'Hare International Airport's (@fly2ohare) new Twitter bio after @PeteButtigieg's announcement: "Place of romance" pic.twitter.com/XHkLE4LBTT
— Dan Merica (@merica) December 16, 2020
Though usually, a place of stress, delays, lines, and frustrated crowds of travelers, for Pete Buttigieg, the airport that was last year voted the busiest in the United States is a poignant and romantic place. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana was introduced by Joe Biden in Delaware on Wednesday where he accepted the President-elect’s nomination for Secretary of Transportation. During his speech, he emphasized his “personal love of transportation” and recounted how he proposed to his husband at Chicago’s busy O’Hare Airport. Soon after people and papers such as the Washington Post came to his support agreeing that airports are romantic places.
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport now boasts of being a "place of romance" on its official Twitter account after President-elect Joe Biden's transportation secretary nominee, Pete Buttigieg, recalled his proposal there https://t.co/Z5JYSnxAbY
— CNN (@CNN) December 17, 2020
Buttigieg’s remarks then motivated a change on the O’Hare Airport’s Twitter profile which now says it is a “place of romance.” On Wednesday, O’Hare was also credited with a more formal honor when it was named as the “Best Airport in North America” by Global Traveler Magazine. It is the 17th consecutive year that the airport has been recognized Midway was also recognized as the Best Airport in North America by Global Traveler and this year it was also named the Best Family-Friendly Domestic Airport.
.@GTmag named O'Hare "Best Airport in North America" for the 17th consecutive year. #ThankYou https://t.co/3UC6Iz3wAm pic.twitter.com/1KPedvB0p5
— O'Hare Intl. Airport (@fly2ohare) December 18, 2020
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