Grapevine - Colleyville - Southlake | October 2023

$4.8B project will expand, update facilities as well as add new terminal From the cover

BY CODY THORN

Expanding the airport

The backstory

What they’re saying

What’s happening

$2.72B Terminals A and C expansion $1.63B Terminal F construction $450M Terminals A and C modernization

What’s next

Historical Association. The authority led to the creation of the airport, which broke ground in 1968 near the city limits of Euless, Irving and Grapevine. Later, Coppell would also house portions of the airport. At the time, the region had Dallas Love Field Airport, while Meacham Airport was the main airport in Fort Worth. That airport closed when DFW Airport ocially opened in 1974.

DFW Airport is celebrating a milestone anni- versary next year as Jan. 13, 2024, will mark 50 years since its rst commercial ight. The airport was ocially dedicated on Sept. 22, 1973, when a Concorde jet from France landed in the U.S. for the rst time, according to airport spokesperson Cynthia Vega. The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill to create the North Texas Regional Airport Authority in 1967, according to the Texas House

$4.8B Project total

The rst expansion to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in nearly two decades will start in early 2024. Airport ocials announced plans in May 2019 to construct Terminal F, but when the pandemic hit the next year, CEO Sean Donohue announced the project would be put on hold. In May 2023, the airport and American Airlines ocials signed a 10-year use and lease agreement on a $4.8 billion project that would construct Terminal F, the rst addition of a new terminal since 2005. Expansion of the central terminal area will include a major reimagining of Terminal C, “pier” expansions o Terminal A and Terminal C, and signicant upgrades to roadways and terminal access. Construction of a new Terminal F will feature a 15-gate concourse with modernized baggage handling, expanded concessions and additional passenger gates.

"Our region will become the nation’s third-largest metro region within the next 10 years, and it’s no surprise that we have the second-busiest airport in the world." MATTIE PARKER, FORT WORTH MAYOR

The new terminal is expected to add up to 25 gates beyond DFW Airport’s 2023 total. Airport ocials expect the numbers of travelers ying in and out to increase as well.

KEY

Existing terminal

$42.7B Projected 2026 economic impact of DFW Airport 85M Estimated travelers in 2026

New terminal Terminal expansions

Airport history

1985 Airport renamed Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

2024 Remodel begins on Terminal C, addition of Terminal F

2017 Terminals A, B and E remodeled

“Since its inception in January of 1974, the DFW International Airport

changed the footprint of our community from an agricultural town to an international city.” WILLIAM D. TATE, GRAPEVINE MAYOR

6 Terminals in 2026

Did you know? $700M: Cost to construct DFW Airport in 1969

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186 Gates in 2026

2005 Terminal D constructed

May 2023 10-year lease agreement signed by DFW Airport, American Airlines for new terminal, renovation

1974 DFW Airport opens for commercial ight

SOURCE: DALLAS FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTCOMMUNITY IMPACT

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