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When it comes to flying out of Dallas or picking someone up, I prefer Love Field. Smaller, less traffic, I’m not saying the F word every other word like I do when driving in DFW
DFW is such a mess - granted, road signage is horrible in Texas in general compared to a lot of places, but that place takes it to another level. My home airport is MSP but we lived in Plano for a few years in the 80s so I knew DFW from back then while dropping off or picking up dad on business trips. I had loved those bridges where the planes go over the road - neat stuff, but of course I was a kid passenger then, so hadn't noticed how nasty all of the roads were. Then a few decades ago I went down to Fort Worth a number of times over a several month period while getting a factory up and running - that first time leaving the rental car center at DFW was my very first time as a driver in Texas, and what a rude awakening it was, especially in a rental... lol The other thing I noticed when down there that I hadn't noticed as much as a kid - those roads all around but especially in the suburbs are super narrow, even the old neighborhood, where the McMansions' rooflines were almost touching. It was surreal. They really do build right up to the property line down there. :P The factory I was setting up was at Railhead, so I drove past Alliance airport every day - those roads were mostly nice wide farm-to-market (preferred industrial roads used a LOT by semi trucks etc for those not familiar with them) roads, so no issues there. :P
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Fun fact: over 20 years ago, Love Field used to serve free donuts, coffee, and orange juice at every gate. I think it ended because a McDonald's opened in the airport and they sued for taking their business.
Delta 191's crash led to the development of the airborne wind shear detection and alert system; previously airplane Doppler radars could only detect thunderstorms. And while it wasn't an air disaster, the famous photo of Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as President after the death of JFK was taken onboard Air Force One at Love Field.
Love field is wayyy better if you want to get in and out of Dallas quickly but DFW is the big boy with international service. i think overall they both serve their purposes well
As someone who lives in south Florida near PBI I would like that. If you want to sum it up, Miami is the largest by far and handles the overwhelming bulk of international travel to South America, Europe, and West Asia. It has massive air cargo facilities that go worldwide. FLL handles mostly domestic but does handle some routes to South America, the Caribbean, and Canada. It did have a regular route To Europe on Norwegian but that went away when covid hit. PBI the smallest of The 3 handles most flights to eastern hubs such as Newark, Charlotte, and Atlanta as well as several other east coast cities but also has fights to Hubs further west like Dallas, Houston, and Chicago. It is considered international because it does handle some flights to the Bahamas
Well, OK. This is one version. And it’s comparing apples and oranges. My family moved to Dallas in 1952, where I started first grade. Our home was just a few miles north of Love Field, on Marsh Lane, above Walnut Hill. That was Far, Far North Dallas outside the city limits. Only four houses, on the east side of Marsh Lane. Endless field from the back yard. Septic tank, butane gas tank, and artesian well for extremely hard water. We cooked/drank bottled water. Anyway, Love Field was just barely inside the city limits, if that. On the north, it’s blocked by Bachman’s Lake. And increasingly developing residential neighborhoods all around. It really had no opportunity to grow. It was locked in. Our neighbor was a Captain for Braniff Airways (he also raised ducks in the back yard. 😀). This was the pre-jet propeller days. He would sometimes comment it was increasingly stressful on final approach for Love Field, flying closer over neighborhoods and Bachman’s. Once, he was on a short-haul from DAL to Oklahoma City and one engine went out on the DC-3. He assured the passengers there was not anything to worry about. The plane can fly just fine on one engine, but it’s closer to get back to Love Field. He did successfully. It was on a late Monday morning. That’s traditional “wash day.” Moms had already hung the laundry on the line in the back yard. On final approach, Mr. Shanklin lowered the wheels, and that sprayed the entire contents of trapped engine oil from the failed engine, all over the freshly hung clothes. Legend has it that Braniff switchboard lit up like a Christmas with calls from really pissed-off North Dallas homemakers. They were NOT amused! Anyway, again, Fort Worth had it’s Amon Carter Field, not what it’s called here. Mr. Shanklin decided Dallas was growing too big and too fast. He and his family moved to a beautiful home with loads of land in Grapevine. He commuted to Love Field. And then the news hit that Grapevine will be the home of D/FW, and there goes the neighborhood! Amon Carter went to mothballs, and Love Field became a restricted regional with the Wright Amendment.
DFW airport is the most significantly developed Airport City in the world. Love Field feeds a luxury car market along Lemmon Avenue, the nearby luxury shopping centers of Highland Park, Inwood Village, Preston Center, Northpark Center, and the Galleria Dallas. Visiting Japanese dignitaries marveled at how close Love Field was located to downtown Dallas. Dallas already has rail connected up to both airports. Fort Worth has its own commuter rail line hooked up to DFW airport.
"Visiting Japanese dignitaries marveled at how close Love Field was located to downtown Dallas." Then later complained about the noise pollution heard from airliners overhead in downtown Dallas. 😅 I say this because being in Dallas a lot in my childhood, nearby Southwest 737 jets overwhelm the noise pollution in the city. Especially when standing in between the Spurgeon Harris and Ross Tower near First Baptist Dallas Church.
@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle That was the case with all jet engines way-way back in those black and white beginnings. The first word I remember learning to utter as a toddler was "Huh?"
@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle I include Lovefield in with Central Dallas as I also include the Texas Medical Center in with Central Houston. Incredibly, Love Field is located closer to downtown Dallas than Hobby airport is located to the Texas Medical Center.
Pretty interesting video, it’s mind blowing how Dallas has gone through the time & the airports are a good example of how big Dallas has gotten. I’m from Houston & I’d love too see one day a Houston airports video since Houston is also getting very busy. Great video btw
You mean Fort Worth. The dfw airport is for Fort Worth as well. Nit just Dallas. Fort Worth is the 12th largest city in America with one million people. It’s nit just Dallas that makes up the population
I'm older (I think). I remember in the pre-DFW/pre-IAH days taking a flight from Houston Hobby to Denver, with intermediate stops at both Love and Greater Southwest.
@@Peyethon, I beg to differ, depending on your travel plans. If you are actually going to Dallas, then fly to Dallas (DAL), not stranded in the wilderness of Grapevine (DFW). If you should have a long layover at Love (DAL), it's easy to hop a cab , Uber or bus to a real, non-airport restaurant.
As a former SWA employee, my heart is at Love for obvious reasons. Historic note: Love Field was where AF1 arrived with JFK the day he was assassinated and where LBJ took his Oath of office with Mrs. Kennedy standing alongside. It's curious the city leaders of Ft. Worth weren't more vocal about naming the airport Ft. Worth-Dallas International, potentially making its IATA code FWD, pronounced "Forward" instead of clunkily stating each letter.
Is it really that hard for you to say three letters and the same letters the Metroplex has been called for decades? And since the airport is in the middle it makes sense to go with the common nickname.
The Ft. Worth city leaders were very vocal about the name. Dallas and Ft. Worth city leaders had feuded for decades. Amon Carter, the Ft. Worth newspaper publisher and TV station owner, disliked Dallas so much that he always took a brown bag lunch to Dallas business meetings because he did not want to drop "one thin dime" into the Dallas economy. Ft. Worth wanted FWD, but the FAA stated that although most of the airport is in Tarrant County, Dallas was better known to the flying public and so DFW it had to be.
FTW may not have the commercial airports Dallas has, but it does have a lot more overall. There's the Naval Base, Meacham, Spinks, and Alliance. Dallas only has Love, Addison, and Dallas Executive.
Fort. Worth does have a commercial airport. It’s DFW airport. Dfw stands for Dallas/Fort Worth. And the Airport is in grapevine. Which is a suburb of fort wort in Tarrant county. Your comment is ignorant
@@VahidMusictxthank you! I know most of the airport is in Tarrant County. I am so old I am still one of the people who gets hacked off about the airport being called Dallas by most 🤣🤣🤣
I'm starting to think I'm missing out not using major cities' less popular airports. Haven't even been through Midway or Reagan despite flying in and out of Chicago and DC fairly often.
Fort Worth has Meacham International Airport that was Fort Worth equivalent to Love Field. All commercial flights were transferred to GSW and then DFW.
Over the last 30-40 years there have been several attempts to make a go of scheduled airline service out of Ft Worth Meacham but none of them took off (pun intended).
I’ve been through DFW. It’s where I experienced the TALLEST escalators EVER! I’ve NEVER experienced Love Field though. It’s interesting that two competing airlines are based at these airports (American is based near DFW, while Southwest is based at Love Field).
I miss DFW area, Both airports and my college University of North Texas in Denton. DFW airport has dedicated Plane spotting/ watching area called Founders Plaza outside of airport
Hi there! I am a huge fan of these comparison videos! As an LA native I would be so interested in a comparison of LAX, BUR and ONT as those are the three main passenger airports officially. If you feel so inclined (assuming you take on this project) SNA or LGB are also large airports in the area. I would be hella down for a 5 airport mega-special
Public transit sucks for both airports. I took the DART rail from DFW last time I flew in. It's a good five minute walk (in the Texas sun) north of Terminal A, which itself takes 15 minutes to traverse. The signs in Terminal A are not clear at all, and I had to ask an employee how to get to the platforms. And I'm sure it's even a bigger hassle coming from another terminal. As for Love Field, they didn't want to spend the money to actually connect the rail to the airport, so you need a shuttle bus from a nearby station.
You could compare Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) vs. San Antonio International (SAT). At the southern tip of Texas, the Rio Grande Valley boasts three airports: Brownsville-South Padre Island International (BRO), Valley International in Harlingen (HRL), and McAllen Miller International (MFE).
In 2002, you could still see the end of Greater Southwest's Runway on Google maps. And YES, American Airlines HQ is exactly where the old airport used to be.
The North end of GSW's runway and part of the taxiway are still there,when u exit DFW's south entry and head to FtW on 183 u can look right and see it. BTW, the plan with GSW was to build an airport between Dallas and Ft Worth,but the terminal building was one half mile closer to Ft Worth than Dallas,so Dallas refused to participate.
AA HQ is actually across from where GSW was. GSW was on the East side of 360...AAHQ is on the West side. The old runway is Amon Carter Blvd...and if you follow it to 183/Airport Frwy, you will see the end of the runway still there.
I don't fly often, but when I do, I go American, so I've been through DFW a couple times. The most recent time was in June 2018 when I flew out to BUR from EWR with a layover at DFW.
Flown in and out of both Love and DFW over 50 times each. Would much rather fly out of or pick people up from Love, but DFW is where you have to go for international. Still enjoy both airports for what they offer.
You should compare the South Florida airports: Palm Beach International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Miami International Airport
Try doing this comparison EWR JFK and LGA NY/NJ metro region for Boston Massachusetts area including Providence Rhode Island comparison is Logan Airport versus Theodore Francis green Airport. One of them opened in 1974 DFW DAL 1920s.
Fun fact: when DFW Airport opened in 1974, every airline at Love Field and Greater Southwest had contractually agreed to move to DFW Airport. Southwest is the only person who didn’t sign off of this agreement and decided to stay at Love Field citing the use of intrastate air travel. Another fun fact: if Southwest wants to expand to any airport in North Texas, Southwest will lose one gate at Love Field. If Southwest wants to expand to DFW Airport rn, they would go from operating 18 gates to 17 gates.This agreement ends in 2025.
Of the two, I much prefer Love Field. It's easier to get to from where I live, and it's just smaller and nicer. It doesn't feel like a big city airport even though it's just a few miles from downtown Dallas. I also happen to live under the northern approach paths to both airports, and I can always tell which plane is going where simply by determining its direction relative to the road grid. I've impressed a few people by doing that.
@@northtexasfan but, as I've asked before, who the hell flies out of Terminal E? If it was in A or B where American flies most of its planes out of then I'd still think DFW sucks but for different reasons.
Love was supposed to close for commercial traffic at the same time Fort Worth Meacham Field did as part of the agreement between Dallas and Fort Worth to jointly build DFW. The Wright Amendment came about because Dallas was not honoring their side of the agreement. Love operated as a private airfield until Herb made a deal with the city. Fort Worth has since opened Alliance, a huge commercial cargo airport. Meanwhile, it's still impossible to get to Love because they can't widen Mockingbird. Add the fact that planes can't approach or depart to the west of Love because of the DFW ATC and suddenly planes are having to head towards downtown before banking. Love really shouldn't be commercial.. it's too small and the city has grown up too much around it.
Here, let me fix some of this for you. Love was supposed to be close around the time Greater Southwest (not Meacham) when DFW opened, and all the airlines at the time agreed to move to DFW. Southwest, not being signatory and planning to only fly intrastate routes, was able to stay at Love Field following court victories. The Wright Amendment only came on the heels of airline deregulation as Southwest then wanted to fly outside of Texas from Love. Also, I've never seen planes banking to avoid downtown. Love is fine as it is now with the Wright Amendment restrictions gone. And saying it's impossible to get to Love is an exaggeration. The DFW Area can now support at least both airports. Southwest is reportedly discussing eventually taking gates at DFW, perhaps when Terminal F is built. McKinney was toying with the idea of improving their airport to attract commercial service, but voters in the city killed a bond issue last year to build a new terminal.
Fun fact: after the delta crash made dfw airport to place a small park with a radar an a plane to wash, a few years later they modified it to include a tent with 9/11 stuff this was not a shocker because a American airlines flight was one of the planes to crash thats why theres so many 9/11 parks in dfw these days the park is known for plane spotters i go there because its a nice place to see while eating Bojangles.
To be more specific about DFW Int'l Airport, it's on the northern county line of Dallas and Tarrant Counties and is shared by Grapevine, Irving, and you forgot to mention Euless, another Forth Worth suburb in Tarrant County. Also, DFW is one of some world class/mega airports in the world made and operational since the Cold War. Others are NRT (Tokyo Narita), CDG (Paris), CGK (Jakarta), IAH (Houston), IAD (Washington Dulles), and JFK (New York City), just to name some.
I would compare the three international airports in South Carolina. Charleston international, Greenville-Spartanburg international and Myrtle Beach international.
There are numerous airports around the world with a long, long runway. Miami and Denver come to mind. But no airport has 4 massive runways, like DFW. DFW could land 4 or 5 a380s at the same time easily.
Fort Worth has two airports Meacham International in Fort Worth and then and Denton county Alliance airport which is in Fort Worth which is an all cargo airport
It won’t get canceled it’s just placed on Hood until flights get back to its same level. DFW airport is growing by passsneger numbers they’ll have to add another terminal eventually.
@@RedArrow73 Dallas Love Field actually started in 1917 as a military training field and was named for Moss L. Love,11th Cavalry,US Army who died in a plane crash in 1913.
I live in outside Dallas and fly out of both regularly. DFW is really like 5 little airports in one spot. Of all the major airports I've been to, it's overall design is the best. The only time I feel like DFW is a pain is when I'm picking up someone at Terminal C where international flights come in. C is the worst of the 5 for traffic, still not as bad so many other major airports. I hate air travel but for a place as large as this, Love and DFW have spoiled me.
@@ChicagoGeographer just looking at the title that says Dallas and Fort Worth's airports compared. That would be Love Field and Mecham Field. Just thought I missed something.
American Airlines Hub is Fort Worth and has always been Dallas just had to put there name on it plus It no man land meaning 97% of DFW sits in tarrant county Fort Worth had annex restrictions to fill dead zone To county line They just haven’t cause it no reason Don’t think GPV and Euless don’t pay Tarrant tax
@@geemane4390 What??? DFW is almost 50/50 between Dallas and Tarrant County. DFW was never FTW...that was GSW, Alliance and Meacham. Dallas and FTW mayors are both on the board. The rest I can't translate.
What’s the issue with different gates or terminals? Park at a lot outside the grounds or take skylink to get to your departure and car. Or Uber or Lyft or alto there and back or get a friend etc. Not really as difficult as you think.
Well you have now identified yourself clearly, old and white guy who loves donald. Poor you has to be catered to and can’t get on a shuttle that’s free.
ON THE PLAN IN 1996 ON EVE OF XMAS A LADY ON THE PLANE SHOWED ME IDEAL STOP ON DALLAS FOOT BALL BUILDING AND OTHER STUFF BUILDING IN DALLAS AS WE WAIT TO LANDED IN DALLAS AIRPORT.
I live in Fort Worth and wish they would expand meacham airport. They been talking about having commercial flights for the last 10 years and nothing ever happens. Fort Worth is a beast on its own with 1 million people. So I don’t get why we share an airport with Dallas. Makes no sense to go on like this.
It will never happen. American Airlines is one of the largest employers based in FT Worth. Their hub is at DFW airport. AA has too much invested in DFW airport. If Meacham were to ever open to commercial traffic American Airlines would probably move to Dallas.
How about a comparison between Houston's TWO international airports, Intercontinental (IAH) & Hobby International (HOU) --- and toss in Spaceport Houston (EFD), ALL THREE of which are actually INSIDE the city limits of Houston?
people talk. so i'm gonna say this. love field staying open after DFW opened had nothing to do with the aviation industry. and yeah, all the aviation people just lost their shit reading that sentence. part of the agreement of opening DFW with the FAA was that love in dallas and GSW in ft. worth would close to commercial traffic. now give me just a little more rope here. the reason love did not close was due to somone's son standing up someone's daughter as a escort to a debutante' ball. someone blackballed someone from joining a country club. someone committed intercourse maximus on someone's real estate deal with the land agreement that was to become DFW. something happened somewhere. and considering the egos in texas and dallas specifically, think "what would JR do?" if you don't know who JR is i don't want to talk to you. think jerry jones on steroids. those are the types of egos we're dealing with in dallas. and that is why dallas pulled out of the deal and kept love open. i put this premise together listening to people in the oilfield talk. and as we all know, there isn't very much oil or gas in texas.............
In spite of Founder's Plaza, DFW is too spread out for good plane spotting. Love Field is in Avery dense area, good for plane spotting. I hope you like SW B737's
4:35 that picture makes no sense. Considering it’s full of American Airline planes, that’s supposed to be DFW airport. But the downtown skyline is definitely not that close. You can barely even see downtown from Irving/Grapevine
That picture is actually very accurate depending on which runaway and terminal you are landing or taking off from. I was on a flight from DFW to San Diego and we had an amazing view of the Dallas skyline when leaving for takeoff. Its even better at night. My flight was leaving out of one runaways of the far north east side of DFW airport. From that side of the airport grounds (almost parallel with Irving) you had a fantastic view of the iconic Dallas skyline.
@@anthonyglass170 They should have 4 as per the Wright Amendment. It stated that if the amendment was overturned, all gate ownership would return to the airlines that had them at the time of the amendment. SW had 4 gates when all the other airlines were FORCED to move operations to DFW. SW fought that tooth and nail when they wanted to overturn Wright, and, just like they were the only airline allowed to stay back then, they favored SW and didn't give back the gates to AA, Delta, United, etc.
Interesting video - thanks. The Wright Amendment and Perimeter Rule (DCA) point out everything wrong with the US - Congress picking winners and losers in commercial aviation. I am glad DFW exists, but also grateful that this airport design hasn't been replicated - its a terrible design. The pod design may have worked for a commuter airport, but it is terrible as a hub.
@@Peyethon it is, i just happen to live near meacham is all. fun fact: harrison ford occasionally gets some pilot training at meacham. although he doesnt stop by too often
