ORD ⇄ MDW and beyond
Between airports, with the bags accounted for
O'Hare to Midway, Midway to O'Hare, and transfers to the regional fields — for passengers, for luggage, or for luggage travelling without the passenger.
Live pricing on the transportation booking flow.
Part of Transportation · all services
What this service handles
Chicago is two major airports forty miles apart, and the connection between them is a real movement with a real failure mode. A separately ticketed itinerary, a cancelled flight rebooked out of the other field, a charter repositioning — all of them turn into a drive with a hard deadline at the far end.
The transfer is booked as a movement with a departure time worked back from the check-in cutoff, not from the flight time. Where the passenger is not travelling with the bags — a long layover spent in the city, an itinerary where the bags go ahead — the luggage moves as its own movement with its own custody record.
The same movement covers transfers to the Chicago-area regional fields for private aviation, where the destination is an FBO rather than a terminal.
Typical movement
- Arrival at the first airport Terminal or FBO
- Collection Passengers, luggage, or luggage on its own movement
- Cross-city transfer Timed against the check-in cutoff, not the departure
- Delivery at the second airport Terminal door or FBO
- Proof captured where bags moved alone Handoff recorded at the far end
Who uses this service
- Passengers on separately ticketed itineraries
- Travellers rebooked out of a different airport
- Long-layover passengers
- Private aviation passengers repositioning
- Airlines and handlers during disruption
- Corporate travel departments
How VaultPac coordinates it
Every booking is a trip. A trip carries trip services, and each service breaks into the individual movements that actually have to happen — which is why the people and the bags do not have to travel the same way.
- Trip
- Trip services
- Individual movements
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Passenger movement
Sedan, SUV, Sprinter, minibus and coach movements priced and dispatched by the transportation engine.
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Luggage movement
Bags booked as their own movement, with their own route, their own timing and their own proof.
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Trip → Trip Services → Movements
One trip holds every service on it, and each service breaks into the individual movements that have to happen. A single booking can carry people and bags on different vehicles and different clocks without becoming two bookings.
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QR custody scan
Every bag carries a tag. Each change of hands is scanned, so custody is a record rather than a recollection.
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Proof of delivery
Time, place and who received the item, captured at delivery.
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Dispatch monitoring
Every movement on one board while it runs, so a late arrival is seen rather than reported.
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FBO coordination
Tail number, operator, FBO and arrival details captured on the movement so the vehicle meets the aircraft rather than the terminal.
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Ordered stops
A movement can carry intermediate stops in order, so a route with three pickups is one movement rather than three bookings.
What runs this movement
Assignment reads the passenger count and the bag count, so the vehicle that arrives fits both. Larger movements run several.
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Executive sedan
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SUV
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Sprinter
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Cargo vehicle
Why VaultPac for this
- Timed from the check-in cutoff at the destination airport, which is the deadline that actually matters.
- Bags can make the transfer without the passenger, under a custody record.
- Covers the regional fields and FBOs, not only ORD and MDW.
- Dispatch holds the movement while it runs, so a delay is visible before it is a missed flight.
Questions
How long should I allow between O'Hare and Midway?
The drive is the smaller half of the answer. We work back from the check-in and bag-drop cutoff at the departing airport, and the traffic window between them varies by hours of the day more than by miles. Give us both flights and we will set the pickup.
Can the bags go without me?
Yes. That is booked as a luggage movement with its own collection and its own delivery, and the custody record shows who released the bags and who received them.
Do you cover the regional airports?
Yes, including the general-aviation fields around Chicago. For those the destination is an FBO, and we capture the FBO and operator on the movement so the vehicle meets the aircraft rather than a terminal.
Next step
Plan airport to airport with us
Tell us the shape of the movement — dates, numbers, where it starts and where it has to end. We come back with an operating plan and a price, not a form letter.