#Dfw airport arrivals departures zip#

While airline service had steeply declined at both GSW and Meacham, Dallas Love Field was congested and had no more room to expand. The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refused to invest more money in separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports. 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. In 1960, Fort Worth purchased Amon Carter Field and renamed it Greater Southwest International Airport (GSW) in an attempt to compete with Dallas' airport, but GSW's traffic continued to decline relative to Dallas Love Field. In 1953, Fort Worth transferred its commercial flights from Meacham Field to the new airport, which was 12 miles (19 km) from Dallas Love Field. After World War II, Fort Worth annexed the site and developed it into Amon Carter Field with the help of American Airlines. 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. In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Administration earmarked US$1,900,000 (equivalent to $36,700,000 in 2021) for the construction of a Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport. Fort Worth declined the offer and thus each city opened its own airport, Love Field and Meacham Field, each of which had scheduled airline service. Īs early as 1927, before the area had an airport, Dallas proposed a joint airport with Fort Worth. In April 2022, DFW Airport was ranked as the second-busiest airport in the world with 62.5 million passengers in 2021. In surpassing 200 destinations, DFW joined a small group of airports worldwide with that distinction. Īs of June 2022, DFW Airport has service to 260 destinations from 28 scheduled airlines.

#Dfw airport arrivals departures zip#

It has its own post office ZIP Code, 75261, and United States Postal Service city designation ('DFW Airport, TX'), as well as its own police, fire protection, and emergency medical services.

At 17,207 acres (6,963 hectares 27 square miles), DFW is larger than the island of Manhattan, and is the second-largest airport by land area in the United States after Denver International Airport. Located roughly halfway between the major cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, DFW spills across portions of Dallas and Tarrant counties and includes portions of the cities of Grapevine, Irving, Euless, and Coppell.

American Airlines at DFW is the second-largest single airline hub in the world and the United States, behind Delta Air Lines 's hub in Atlanta. It is the ninth-busiest international gateway in the United States and the second-busiest international gateway in Texas (behind Houston-IAH). It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartered near the airport, and is the third-busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements and the second-busiest airport by passenger traffic in 2021, according to the Airports Council International. Sources: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ĭallas/Fort Worth International Airport ( IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW, FAA LID: DFW), also known as DFW Airport, is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas Region in the U.S.