Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas is undergoing a major redevelopment!

Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas is undergoing a major redevelopment! It is located at 8008 Cedar Springs Road, Dallas, TX. Dallas Love Field opened on October 19^th 1917.  It has had lots of events between 1917 and 2014:

                   

First 15 years of airfield 1917-1932

1917 - Dallas Love Field opens as the first airport in Dallas

1918 - World War I Ends and the future of Love Field was uncertain

1919 - Love Field is deactivated from being an active duty field

1927 - Love Field opens for civilian use

1932 - First paved runways at the airfield were completed

        

World War II years and growth of airfield 1940-1954

1940-1946 - Love Field has World War II training and ferrying

1947 - Lemmon Avenue Terminal opens on east side of airfield

1949 - American Airlines plane crashes on the runway and kills 28 people

1950 - Pioneer Airlines moves from Houston to Love Field

1954 - Runway 7/25 closes and makes way for expansion

              

8^th Largest Airport in US - Years 1958-1974

1958 - Love Field opens a new terminal with three one-level concourses

1959 - Continental Airlines introduces the Vickers Viscount turboprop

1961 - The Wyatt family gives a large bronze statue for the new terminal

1963 - John F Kennedy flies into Love Field and was assassinated at Dealey Plaza, Lyndon B Johnson was sworn into office as president of the United States at Love Field

1965-1970 - New runway opens; American Airlines, Braniff Airlines, and Delta Airlines expand their concourses

1971 - Southwest Airlines is founded at Love Field

1972 - Airport has a hijacking accident with Braniff Airlines

1973 - The Airport is proud to be the 8^th largest airport in the United States with 6,668,398 enplanements; Dallas Fort Worth Airport is planned because of the growth of the area

                                   

Decline of Dallas Love Field 1974-1979

1974 - Dallas Fort Worth Airport opens and reduces Love Field to only 467,212 enplanements

1975 - Llove Entertainment Complex opens to replace Dallas Love Field’s concourses

1978 - Llove Entertainment Complex leaves, remodeled into support and training buildings for Southwest Airlines; Southwest Airlines expands to more destinations and angers DFW Airport

                                       

Wright Amendment 1979-2014

 1979 - Law limiting flight destinations at Love Field was signed called the Wright

Amendment

1982-1987 - New airlines come and go at Dallas Love Field such as Muse Air, and Tran Star Airlines

1998 - Continental Express starts flying at Love Field

2001 - 9/11 attacks hurt the airline industry

2002 - Love Field is designated as a Texas State Historical Site

2004-2014 - Dallas Love Field works to end the Wright Amendment, which officially ended on October 13, 2014.

That is a lot of history. Now lets talk about the redevelopment which was announced in 2009. It replaced the old terminal buildings with a new single terminal building. I got to visit the new terminal when we visited Texas and it was a nice terminal! It has 15 new stores, 21 new restaurants, an Art and History Museum, and a Kid’s Play Area. It also remodeled its departures and arrivals building with a new conference center building, baggage claim, and check-in counters. Dallas Love Field opened Phase 1 in 2012 and Phase 2 of the project in 2014. As result of the redevelopment, Southwest Airlines is adding more nonstop destinations from Love Field, and Virgin America moved from DFW Airport to Love Field. I first heard about Dallas Love Field remodeling from Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dallas+Love+Field+Airport/@32.848103,-96.851206,2502m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xea741a5750bb2386. Dallas area residents now have an airport with a nice terminal. I am pleased and excited about the Dallas Love Field redevelopment project. Dallas Love Field has a website: http://www.dallas-lovefield.com/index.html and a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DallasLoveField for more information about the place. 

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