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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
DFW because of the 'big airport' (previously, Fort Worth had Greater Southwest International Airport; much of what now is American Airlines corporate headquarters in the Centerport office park used to be that airport. If you look (quickly) to your right while taking the ramp from DFW Airport to Highway 360 you'll see the abandoned approach end of one of the runways of Greater Southwestern. (Just to be on the safe side, they've been marked with giant yellow "X" marks so pilots will know not to land there - highly unlikely!)
Before DFW was built, Dallas' major airport was Love Field. Part of the agreement between Dallas and Fort Worth was that they were to close their airports when the new one was built. Fort Worth lived up to their end of the deal, and all the major airlines of the day packed up and left Love Field. Southwest Airlines (at the time only an intrastate air carrier) did not sign the agreement and stayed at Love. Only after the airlines were deregulated in 1980 did Southwest begin to spread its wings outside Texas, and that's when then-Speaker of the House Jim Wright came up with the Wright Amendment.
Fort Worth is known as 'Cowtown' because it was the southern end of many of the Old West's cattle trails, and for its stockyards which processed them.
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Yay thanks for all that info! Definitely helpful.
Does the Alliance airport in Ft. worth still operate? I'm so confused!
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