City of Fort Worth Operator DFW Airport Board Serves Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Location Coppell , Euless , Grapevine , and Irving Hub for American Airlines UPS Airlines Elevation AMSL 607 ft / 185 m Coordinates 32°53′49″N 097°02′17″W / 32.89694°N 97.03806°W / 32.89694; -97.03806 Coordinates : 32°53′49″N 097°02′17″W / 32.89694°N 97.03806°W / 32.89694; -97.03806 Website www.dfwairport.com Maps FAA airport diagram DFW Location within Texas Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 13L/31R 9,000 2,743 Concrete 13R/31L 9,301 2,835 Concrete 17C/35C 13,401 4,085 Concrete 17L/35R 8,500 2,591 Concrete 17R/35L 13,401 4,085 Concrete 18L/36R 13,400 4,084 Concrete 18R/36L 13,400 4,084 Concrete Helipads Number Length Surface ft m H1 158 48 Concrete Statistics (2009) Passengers 56 030 457 (8th) (+1.9%) Aircraft operations 638 782 (3rd) (+2.7%) Sources: Airports Council International [1] Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (IATA : DFW, ICAO : KDFW, FAA LID : DFW) is located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth , Texas,[2] and (at least as of 2007) is the busiest airport in the U.S . state of Texas . It generally serves the larger Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, with carriers providing regional, national and international flights. With 638,782 aircraft movements in 2009,[3] it is the third busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft movements. In terms of passenger traffic, it is the eighth busiest airport in the world transporting 56,030,457 passengers[1] in 2009. In terms of land area, at 18,076 acres (7,315 ha),[4] it is the largest airport in Texas, the second largest in the United States , behind Denver International Airport , and fourth largest in the world. It is the ninth busiest international gateway in the United States, and second in Texas, behind George Bush Intercontinental Airport .[5] It has the most non-intersecting runways with 7. Only Chicago O'Hare International Airport comes close with 7 intersecting runways.[citation needed ] In 2006 the airport was named the "Best Cargo Airport in the World" according to the second edition of a survey.[6] [7] The airport, within the incorporated cities of Coppell ,[8] Euless ,[9] Grapevine ,[10] and Irving ,[11] serves 144 domestic destinations and 44[12] international, and is the largest and primary hub for American Airlines (745 daily flights), and also the primary hub for American Eagle . The airport is often referred to by its IATA airport code, "DFW." It is operated in many ways like a small city : it has its own post office, ZIP code , and public services. The United States Postal Service gave the airport its own city designation, DFW Airport, TX.[13] The members of the airport's Board of Directors are appointed by the "owner cities" of Dallas and Fort Worth. The airport is inside the city limits of four suburban cities, a situation that has led to legal battles over jurisdiction (see below). To help ensure future harmony with its neighbors, the DFW Airport Board includes a non-voting member — a representative chosen from the airport's neighbors (Irving , Euless , Grapevine , and Coppell ) on a rotating basis.
History
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As early as 1927, before the area had an airport, Dallas proposed a joint airport with Fort Worth . Fort Worth declined the offer, and thus the two cities opened their own airports, Love Field and Meacham Field . Both airports had scheduled airline service.
In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Administration earmarked $1.9 million for the construction of a Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport. American Airlines and Braniff Airways struck a deal with the city of Arlington to build an airport there, but the governments of Dallas and Fort Worth disagreed over its construction and the project was abandoned in 1942. After World War II , Fort Worth annexed the site and developed it into Amon Carter Field with the help of American Airlines.
Fort Worth transferred its commercial flights from Meacham Field to the new airport in 1953, which was just now 12 miles (19 km) from Dallas Love Field .
In 1960, Fort Worth purchased Amon Carter Field and renamed it Greater Southwest International Airport GSW in an attempt to compete with Dallas' more successful airport. However, GSW's traffic continued to decline relative to Dallas Love Field. By the mid-1960s, Fort Worth was getting 1% of Texas air traffic while Dallas was getting 49%, which led to the virtual abandonment of GSW. The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the FAA refused to invest any more money in separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports. Although the Fort Worth airport was eventually abandoned, Dallas Love Field became congested and had no more room to expand. Following an order from the federal government in 1964 that they would unilaterally choose a site if both cities could not come to an agreement on a site, officials from the two cities finally agreed on a location for a new regional airport that was north of the abandoned GSW and almost perfectly equidistant from the two city centers. The land was purchased by both cities in 1966, and construction began in 1969.
The first landing of a supersonic BAC /Sud Aviation (now BAE Systems and Aerospatiale) Concorde in the United States occurred at DFW Airport in 1973 to commemorate the airport's completion. Concorde later served DFW from 1979–1980 in a cooperative agreement between Braniff Airways , British Airways , and Air France . Braniff ended the service due to low load factors. Braniff was the largest airline to open D/FW in 1974 with a full semicircular terminal designated 2W ( now Terminal B) devoted to its operations. Other airlines, like American Airlines, only had half a terminal or less. DFW Airport opened for commercial service on January 13, 1974. The original name was Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport. The name change to Dallas/Fort Worth International did not occur until 1985. Following the Wright Amendment of 1979, which banned long-distance flights from Love Field, DFW became the only airport in the metropolitan area to offer long-haul commercial air passenger service on aircraft with more than 56 passenger seats. American established its first hub at DFW on June 11, 1981, adding flights to London in 1982, and Tokyo in 1987.[citation needed ] American Airlines finished moving its headquarters from Grand Prairie, Texas to a building in Fort Worth located near DFW Airport on January 17, 1983; the airline began leasing the facility from the airport, which owns the facility. Braniff International already had International service to South America and Mexico in 1974, London in 1978 and Europe and Asia in 1979. Delta Air Lines built up a hub at DFW during the same period but announced closure in 2004 in a restructuring of the airline to avoid bankruptcy . Today, Delta only flies from DFW to its 7 hubs.
After the closing of Delta's hub in 2005, DFW Airport offered incentives to Southwest Airlines to relocate its hub to DFW from Love Field. Southwest, like in the past, chose to stay at Love Field . In 1989, the airport authority announced plans to rebuild the existing terminals and construct 2 new runways . After an environmental impact study was released the following year, the cities of Irving , Euless , and Grapevine sued the airport over its extension plans, a battle that was finally decided (in favor of the airport) by the US Supreme Court in 1994. The seventh runway opened in 1996. The 4 primary North-South runways (those closest to the terminals) were all lengthened from 11,388 feet (3,471 m) to their current length of 13,400 feet (4,084 m). The first of these, 17R/35L, was extended in 1996 (at the same time the new runway was constructed), and the other three (17C/35C, 18L/36R, and 18R/36L) were extended in 2005. DFW is now the only airport in the world with 4 serviceable paved runways longer than 4,000 metres (13,123 ft).
Terminal D, built for international service operations, and Skylink , a modern people mover system, opened in 2005.
Terminals, airlines and destinations
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has five terminals . The airport is designed with expansion in mind, and can theoretically accommodate up to thirteen terminals totaling 260 gates, although this level of expansion is unlikely to be reached in the foreseeable future.
The terminals at DFW are semicircular (except for the newest terminal, Terminal D, which is a "square U" shape) and built around the airport's central north-south arterial road, Spur 97 , also known as "International Parkway." Until the late 1990s, they were designated by a number (2 being northernmost, 4 being southernmost) and a lette
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