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On May 30, 2012, Houston's city council approved Southwest's request for international flights from Hobby. [64] The groundbreaking of the terminal expansion began in September 2013. [65] Five new gates (two arrival/departure gates and three arrival only gates) were added to accommodate both Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family aircraft. [66]
Fort Worth declined the offer and thus each city opened its own airport, Love Field in Dallas and Meacham Field in Fort Worth, each of which had scheduled airline service. In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Administration earmarked US$1,900,000 (equivalent to $41,300,000 in 2023) for the construction of a Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport.
A group of Houston businessmen purchased the site for Bush Intercontinental Airport in 1957 to preserve it until the city of Houston could formulate a plan for a new airport as a replacement for William P. Hobby Airport (at the time known as Houston International Airport). The holding company for the land was named the Jet Era Ranch Corporation ...
A gate is an area in an airport terminal that controls access to a passenger aircraft. While the exact specifications vary from airport to airport and country to country, most gates consist of a seated waiting area, a counter and a doorway leading to the aircraft.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (14 P) Pages in category "Airports in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The airport does not have scheduled commercial passenger service. However, Continental Airlines used to operate daily regional services between Ellington and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport between 1990 and 2004. On 17 October 2018, the City of Houston approved Phase 1 of the Houston Spaceport project on the Ellington Airport ...
(Reuters) -A Southwest Airlines plane preparing for departure at Dallas Love Field airport was struck by a bullet late on Friday and had to return to the gate, the airline said in a statement on ...
Although each city is distinct, Dallas and Fort Worth developed closely enough to form the urban area widely known as the Metroplex. The 60,000-square-mile (160,000 km 2 ) region contains most of the state's largest cities and metropolitan areas , and in 2008 had a total of 17 million people and by 2020 had grown to nearly 21 million, [ 1 ...