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50 years later: How DFW Airport became an engine of growth for booming Dallas-Fort Worth. Eleanor Dearman. January 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM. It was 1973, and Grapevine Mayor William Tate was 31 and the ...
The airport opened for commercial service as Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport on January 13, 1974, at a cost of $875 million (equivalent to $5.5 billion in 2024), which included $65 million for the land and $810 million in total construction costs.
At this same time, American was also flying Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service on several routes from the airport including an eastbound service operating Fort Worth - Dallas Love Field - Washington D.C. National Airport - Philadelphia - New York City LaGuardia Airport as well as another eastbound flight operating Fort Worth - Little Rock ...
LTV's Airtrans was an automated people mover system that operated at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport between 1974 and 2005. The adaptable people mover was utilized for several separate systems: the Airport Train, Employee Train, American Airlines TrAAin and utility service.
American Airlines dominates service at DFW and American also would like more gates, according to the airport. DFW, the third-busiest airport in the world, has 168 gates spread across five terminals.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport expects to see 100 million passengers per year by the end of the decade. Here’s the latest on overhauling terminals.
Skylink was developed as a replacement for the Airtrans (part of which was later operated as American Airlines' TrAAin System), the airport's original people mover system that connected airport facilities and parking lots. It served the airport for 31 years from 1974 to 2005 and transported a quarter of a billion passengers between DFW's then ...
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...