{"id":1134,"date":"2003-05-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2003\/05\/27\/airport-profile-dallas-fort-worth\/"},"modified":"2003-05-27T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-27T22:00:00","slug":"airport-profile-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/airport-profile-dallas-fort-worth.html","title":{"rendered":"Airport Profile: Dallas Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airport is located some 15 miles (24 km) away from<br \/>\nDallas and 18 miles (29 km) away from Fort Worth. There are<br \/>\nfour terminals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.airwise.com\/airports\/us\/DFW\/TA_DFW.html\">Terminal<br \/>\nA<\/a> is for American\/American Eagle flights.<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.airwise.com\/airports\/us\/DFW\/TB_DFW.html\">Terminal<br \/>\nB<\/a> serves America West, American, Continental, United,<br \/>\nUS Airways and most non-US airlines.<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.airwise.com\/airports\/us\/DFW\/TC_DFW.html\">Terminal<br \/>\nC<\/a> is for American Airlines.<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.airwise.com\/airports\/us\/DFW\/TE_DFW.html\">Terminal<br \/>\nE<\/a> is for Aeromexico, AirTran, Delta and Northwest<br \/>\nflights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>History: the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas,<br \/>\nhave a rivalry going back a long time and this is true when<br \/>\nit came to sharing an airport. Dallas first suggested<br \/>\nsharing an airport back in 1927, but it was not to happen<br \/>\nfor many years, until 1968.<\/p>\n<p>In 1940, when both Dallas and Fort Worth were looking<br \/>\nfor funding to prop up their respective ailing airports,<br \/>\nthe Civil Aeronautics Administration tried to persuade them<br \/>\nto join forces and offered US $1.9 million to get it going,<br \/>\nbut nothing doing. In 1941, American and Braniff airlines<br \/>\nkeen to cut costs got together with the city of Arlington<br \/>\nto develop Midway Airport. Nice try, but this time Dallas<br \/>\nand Fort Worth fell out over the siting of the main<br \/>\nterminal and again nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>More than twenty years on, in 1964 the Civil Aeronautics<br \/>\nBoard ruled that Love Field (Dallas) and Great Southwest<br \/>\nInternational (Fort Worth) were unsuitable for future needs<br \/>\nand gave the two cities just 180 days to find a site for a<br \/>\njoint airport or it would do the job for them. Under J.<br \/>\nErik Jonsson, Mayor of Dallas and also chairman of an<br \/>\nInterim Airport Board things began to happen. A suitable<br \/>\nsite was found situated about 17 miles from both cities.<br \/>\nMoney was raised, prairie land was bought and the Dallas<br \/>\nFort Worth Regional Airport Board created in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The first commercial flight landed at the new DFW on<br \/>\nJanuary 13, 1974 and it has been going from strength to<br \/>\nstrength ever since. In 2000<acronym TITLE=\"Dalas Fort Worth\">DFW<\/acronym>was the world&#039;s fifth<br \/>\nbusiest airport and has expansion plans to get even<br \/>\nbigger.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airport is located some 15 miles (24 km) away from Dallas and 18 miles (29 km) away from Fort Worth. 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