The airport is located some 15 miles (24 km) away from Dallas and 18 miles (29 km) away from Fort Worth. There are four terminals:

• Terminal A is for American/American Eagle flights.
• Terminal B serves America West, American, Continental, United, US Airways and most non-US airlines.
• Terminal C is for American Airlines.
• Terminal E is for Aeromexico, AirTran, Delta and Northwest flights.

History: the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, have a rivalry going back a long time and this is true when it came to sharing an airport. Dallas first suggested sharing an airport back in 1927, but it was not to happen for many years, until 1968.

In 1940, when both Dallas and Fort Worth were looking for funding to prop up their respective ailing airports, the Civil Aeronautics Administration tried to persuade them to join forces and offered US $1.9 million to get it going, but nothing doing. In 1941, American and Braniff airlines keen to cut costs got together with the city of Arlington to develop Midway Airport. Nice try, but this time Dallas and Fort Worth fell out over the siting of the main terminal and again nothing happened.

More than twenty years on, in 1964 the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that Love Field (Dallas) and Great Southwest International (Fort Worth) were unsuitable for future needs and gave the two cities just 180 days to find a site for a joint airport or it would do the job for them. Under J. Erik Jonsson, Mayor of Dallas and also chairman of an Interim Airport Board things began to happen. A suitable site was found situated about 17 miles from both cities. Money was raised, prairie land was bought and the Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport Board created in 1968.

The first commercial flight landed at the new DFW on January 13, 1974 and it has been going from strength to strength ever since. In 2000DFWwas the world's fifth busiest airport and has expansion plans to get even bigger.