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Dallas/Fort Worth International
Airport (IATA: DFW, ICAO:
KDFW, FAA LID: DFW) is the
primary international airport
serving the Dallas–Fort Worth
metroplex area in the U.S. state
of Texas. It is the largest hub for
American Airlines, which is headquartered
near the airport. 2016 was a record year for
DFW, as the airport served 65,670,697
passengers.
map of Dallas Fort Worth Airport
It is the third busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements and the eleventh busiest
airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2016.
It is the busiest airport in the state of Texas by both passenger enplanements and by
aircraft movements (takeoffs and landings).
It is the tenth busiest international gateway in the United States and busiest in Texas.
With nearly 900 daily flights, American Airlines at DFW is the second largest airline hub
in the world and the United States, only behind Delta's Atlanta hub.
DFW is larger than the island of Manhattan and is the second largest in acreage
(18,076.297 (7,318 hectares or 29.8 square miles) among US airports, after Denver.
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
Irving, Euless, Grapevine and Coppell.
It has its own post office ZIP code and United States Postal Service city designation
("DFW Airport, TX"), as well as its own police, fire protection and emergency medical
services.
The members of the airport's board of directors are appointed by the "owner cities" of
Dallas and Fort Worth, with a non-voting member chosen from the airport's four
neighboring cities on a rotating basis.
KDFW Dallas
July 2017
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