query: What is the name of the airport in Dallas Ft. Worth?

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: plaza. In "Home Alone", Kate McCallister travels through Dallas/Fort Worth from Paris on her way to Chicago. In The Mountain Goats' song "Color in Your Cheeks", Dallas/Fort Worth is mentioned as the landing place of a woman from Taipei, the first of the song's many unnamed protagonists who seek refuge in Texas. However, DFW is not, as the album title suggests, in West Texas. In David Bazan's song "Won't Let Go", Dallas/Fort Worth is mentioned as his landing place. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area in the

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 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. 2017 was a record year for DFW, as the airport served 67,092,194 passengers. It is the fourth busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements and the twelfth busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2017. It is the busiest airport in the state of Texas by both passenger enplanements and by aircraft movements (takeoffs and landings). It is

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport station

text: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport station Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport station is a transit station located at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. It offers service on the DART light rail service, and future commuter rail line. The light rail station opened on August 18, 2014, and it serves as the northwestern terminus of the Orange Line. It is located between Terminals A and B. The station is easily accessible from the lower level of Terminal A near A10. With the eventual completion of DFW Airport/Terminal B station in late 2018, a walkway will connect the two stations together making it possible for

text: passengers to transfer onto TEXRail or access Terminal B. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport station Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport station is a transit station located at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. It offers service on the DART light rail service, and future commuter rail line. The light rail station opened on August 18, 2014, and it serves as the northwestern terminus of the Orange Line. It is located between Terminals A and B. The station is easily accessible from the lower level of Terminal A near A10. With the eventual completion of DFW Airport/Terminal B station in late 2018, a walkway will

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: have won in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, including in presidential elections. Democratic voters dominate a majority of areas in the large cities of Dallas, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and Arlington (especially areas east of Interstate 35W). Republicans dominate North Dallas, western Fort Worth and the rest of Tarrant County, most suburbs, and the rural areas of the metroplex. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (IATA airport code: DFW), located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Texas. At of total land area, DFW is also the second-largest airport in the

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: actual ER on an airport's property anywhere around the globe. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has five terminals and 165 gates. The airport is designed with expansion in mind and can theoretically accommodate up to thirteen terminals and 260 gates, although this level of expansion is unlikely to be reached in the foreseeable future. The first four terminals were designed by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and Brodsky, Hopf & Adler. The terminals at DFW are semicircular (except for the newest terminal, Terminal D, which is a "square U" shape) and built around the airport's central north–south arterial road, International Parkway. Until

title: Demographics of Dallas–Fort Worth

text: 86,000 ethnic Koreans in North Texas. The Korean Society of Dallas serves the Korean community. There is a South Korean consular office in Dallas. The office opened in June 2013 and is the first consul officer is Dong-Chan Kim. As of 2012 there was a dispute between ethnic Korean business owners and African-Americans in the DFW area. Mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings attempted to mediate this dispute. American Airlines began nonstop flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Incheon Airport near Seoul in May 2013. In January 2014 Shin-Soo Choo was scheduled to visit Dallas. As of 2014, the DFW

title: History of Mexican Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: limits. Many Mexicans in Dallas live in lower income housing, especially in South Dallas. the Mexican population lived in various parts of the DFW area, with concentrations in West Dallas, Oak Cliff, and Arlington. As of 2000 there was a large group of ethnic Mexicans living north of Arlington in an area south of Interstate 30, and a smaller group in the cities between Dallas and Fort Worth south of U.S. Highway 183. As of 2012 there are about 20 daily flights between Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Mexico. El Fenix, a Tex-Mex restaurant chain, was established by Mike Martinez,

title: Fort Worth Spinks Airport

text: Fort Worth Spinks Airport Fort Worth Spinks Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located 14 nautical miles (26 km) south of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. It is the newest of the three airports that are owned by the City of Fort Worth and it serves the cities of Fort Worth, Burleson, and Mansfield. The airport is located at the intersection of Interstate 35W and HWY 1187 and serves as a reliever airport for Fort Worth Meacham International Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It was one of few airports in the

title: Angelina County Airport

text: a day operated with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter twin turboprop aircraft. Three nonstop flights a day were operated to both Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and nearby Nacogdoches, TX (OCH) with two of these flights to Nacogdoches continuing on to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) via stops in Longview (GGG) and Tyler (TYR). In the spring of 1981, Abilene, TX-based Chaparral Airlines was operating three nonstop flights a day to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) with Beechcraft 99 propjets. By 1994, the closest scheduled airline service was being flown from Nacogdoches (OCH) by Lone Star Airlines with nonstop service to Dallas/Fort

title: North Dallas

text: Uptown, east Dallas, Lake Highlands, and Garland. The Green Line and Orange Line lines run just to the west of North Dallas in northwest Dallas. The two lines serve DFW Airport, Irving and Las Colinas, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, the Stemmons Corridor, Victory Park, downtown, Deep Ellum, Fair Park, south Dallas and Pleasant Grove. Lines and stations in North Dallas include: Dallas's Love Field Airport is located in North Dallas, near the Bluff View and Devonshire neighborhoods. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's major international airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, is located a short distance to the northwest. Additionally, Addison Airport, a general

title: Fort Worth Alliance Airport

text: by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillwood Development, and is the second largest airport facility in North Texas, behind only Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Besides general aviation services, the airport serves as the southwest regional hub for FedEx Express. It formerly served as a maintenance hub for DFW-based American Airlines, until the bankruptcy filing and subsequent restructuring of its parent AMR Corporation. Alliance filled in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the short-lived 2004 TV drama "LAX". By the 1990s, the annual passenger air traffic at DFW International Airport had exceeded the airport's capacity, and

title: Public art in Dallas

text: Public art in Dallas The city of Dallas, Texas has a public art collection of over 300 individual pieces of art. Dallas Love Field Airport has almost 20 pieces of art, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has over 30 more. Well known sculptures on public display include "Dallas Piece" by Henry Moore and "Floating Sculpture" by Marta Pan. Dallas has at least one public display Confederate memorial, the Confederate War Memorial, and a memorial to freed slaves, Freedman's Memorial by David Newton, installed in 1999. Dallas Area Rapid Transit has run the DART Station Art & Design Program since 1988,

title: Dallas Love Field

text: craft soon afterwards and arrested him without serious incident. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 1964, the FAA, tired of having to fund separate airports in Dallas and Fort Worth, gave the two cities a six-month period to choose a site for and plan out a new regional airport. Ultimately, they agreed to build Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport (now Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport). It was agreed that to promote the new airport, each city would restrict its own passenger-service airports from air-carrier operations. Soon after the new airport opened, Greater Southwest International Airport was closed to

title: Fort Smith Regional Airport

text: Worth via Paris, TX; to Tulsa and Oklahoma City via Muskogee, OK; to Kansas City via Fayetteville, AR and Joplin, MO; and to Little Rock via Hot Springs, AR. Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA, now ExpressJet) flew Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop service nonstop to Dallas/Ft. Worth from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. This service ended when Delta closed its hub operation at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Following its acquisition of Republic Airlines (1979-1986) in 1986, Northwest Airlines established a hub in Memphis. By 1989, Northwest Airlink operated by Express Airlines I (now Endeavor Air)

title: Public art in Dallas

text: and as of 2007, had about 40 installations at transit stations and Cityplace, Dallas's subway station. Public art in Dallas The city of Dallas, Texas has a public art collection of over 300 individual pieces of art. Dallas Love Field Airport has almost 20 pieces of art, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has over 30 more. Well known sculptures on public display include "Dallas Piece" by Henry Moore and "Floating Sculpture" by Marta Pan. Dallas has at least one public display Confederate memorial, the Confederate War Memorial, and a memorial to freed slaves, Freedman's Memorial by David Newton, installed in

title: Dallas

text: the construction of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. Dallas is rated a "beta(+)" global city. The economy of Dallas is considered diverse, with dominant sectors including defense, financial services, information technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It serves as the headquarters for 9 Fortune 500 companies within the city limits. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex hosts additional Fortune 500 companies, including American Airlines (Fort Worth), ExxonMobil (Irving), and J.C. Penney (Plano). The city has a population from a myriad of ethnic and religious backgrounds and the sixth-largest LGBT population in the United States. Preceded

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: city centers. The land was purchased by the cities in 1966 and construction began in 1969. Voters went to the polls in cities throughout the Dallas/Ft Worth area to approve the new North Texas Regional Airport, which was named after the North Texas Commission that was instrumental in the regional airport coming to fruition. The North Texas Commission formed the North Texas Airport Commission to oversee the planning and construction of the giant airport. Area voters approved the airport referendum and the new North Texas Regional Airport would become a reality. Under the original 1967 airport design, DFW was to

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: As early as 1927, before the area had an airport, Dallas proposed a joint airport with Fort Worth. Fort Worth declined the offer and thus each city opened its own airport, Love Field and Meacham Field, each of which had scheduled airline service. In 1940 the Civil Aeronautics Administration earmarked $1.9 million for the construction of a Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport. American Airlines and Braniff Airways struck a deal with the city of Arlington to build an airport there, but the governments of Dallas and Fort Worth disagreed over its construction and the project was abandoned in 1942. After World

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: Governor John Connally, Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar, U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe. The airport opened for commercial service as Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport on January 13, 1974, at a cost of $700 million. The first flight to land was American Airlines Flight 341 from New York, which had stopped in Memphis and Little Rock. The name change to Dallas/Fort Worth International did not occur until 1985. When it opened, DFW had four terminals, numbered 2W, 2E, 3E and 4E. During its first year of operations, the airport was served by American Airlines, Braniff International Airways, Continental

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: War II, Fort Worth annexed the site and developed it into Amon Carter Field with the help of American Airlines. In 1953 Fort Worth transferred its commercial flights from Meacham Field to the new airport, which was from Dallas Love Field. In 1960 Fort Worth purchased Amon Carter Field and renamed it Greater Southwest International Airport GSW in an attempt to compete with Dallas' airport, but GSW's traffic continued to decline relative to Dallas Love Field. By the mid-1960s Fort Worth was getting 1% of Texas air traffic while Dallas was getting 49%, which led to the virtual abandonment of

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: GSW. The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refused to invest more money in separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports. Although the Fort Worth airport was eventually abandoned, Dallas Love Field became congested and had no more room to expand. Following an order from the federal government in 1964 that it would unilaterally choose a site if the cities could not come to an agreement, officials from the two cities finally agreed on a location for a new regional airport that was north of the abandoned GSW and almost equidistant from the two

title: Fort Worth Alliance Airport

text: a solution was proposed to repeal the Wright Amendment and open Alliance Airport to passenger service, effectively providing DFW with two reliever airports (the other being Dallas Love Field). But DFW opposed the solution and no passenger service was introduced at Alliance Airport. Fort Worth Alliance Airport covers an area of which contains two concrete paved runways: 16L/34R measuring 9,600 x 150 ft (2,926 × 46 m) and 16R/34L measuring 11,010 × 150 ft (3,356 × 46 m). Currently Alliance Airport is in the process of a runway extension to 11,000 feet. For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2012,

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: the ninth busiest international gateway in the United States and second 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, behind Delta's Atlanta hub. At , DFW is larger than the island of Manhattan, and is the second largest airport by land area in the United States, after Denver International Airport. 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.

title: Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport

text: in December 2004, the airport name was changed to Jackson–Evers International Airport on January 22, 2005. In 1973, Delta Boeing 727s flew nonstop to Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Monroe (LA), Montgomery (AL), Memphis, Meridian (MS), New Orleans, and Shreveport, which continued for some time afterward. During the mid-1980s, Delta 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s flew nonstop to Atlanta, Dallas/Ft Worth, Memphis, Mobile, Monroe, and Shreveport. In October 1991, Delta had nonstop 727s, DC-9s and McDonnell Douglas MD-88s to its hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Dallas/Ft Worth, in addition to Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Monroe, and Shreveport. Delta reduced its flights in

title: Fort Worth Meacham International Airport

text: Fort Worth Meacham International Airport Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Meacham Field) is a general aviation airport in Fort Worth, Texas similar to Addison Airport on the Dallas side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It is at the intersection of Interstate 820 and U.S. Business Highway 287 in northwest Fort Worth, near downtown. It has two parallel runways; the old runway 9-27 is now closed permanently. The airport is named after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. Meacham Airport was purchased by the city of Fort Worth on July 3, 1925, named Fort Worth Municipal Airport. In 1927 the

text: Fort Worth Airlines had its headquarters at the airport. Fort Worth Meacham International Airport Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Meacham Field) is a general aviation airport in Fort Worth, Texas similar to Addison Airport on the Dallas side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It is at the intersection of Interstate 820 and U.S. Business Highway 287 in northwest Fort Worth, near downtown. It has two parallel runways; the old runway 9-27 is now closed permanently. The airport is named after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. Meacham Airport was purchased by the city of Fort Worth on July 3,

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: only in Fort Worth. The diesel commuter train that serves Fort Worth and its eastern suburbs is operated as the Trinity Railway Express; it connects downtown Fort Worth to downtown Dallas, where it links to the DART light rail system. A station near its midpoint, Centerport, serves DFW Airport via a free airport shuttle bus. The TRE is jointly owned by FWTA and DART. Amtrak serves two stations in the Metroplex - Dallas Union Station and Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center. Both are served by the "Texas Eagle" route, which operates daily between Chicago and San Antonio (continuing on to

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: Los Angeles three days a week), though only the latter station is served by the Fort Worth-Oklahoma City "Heartland Flyer". As of 2016 the Taiwanese airline EVA Air operates a shuttle bus service from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to Richardson, so that Dallas-based customers may fly on its services to and from Houston. Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth have their own newspapers, "The Dallas Morning News" and the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram", respectively. Historically, the two papers had readership primarily in their own counties. As the two cities' suburbs have grown together in recent

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: 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. As of December 2018, DFW Airport has service to 244 destinations, including 62 international and 182 domestic destinations within the U.S. In surpassing 200 destinations, DFW joined a small group of airports worldwide with that distinction.

title: Abilene Regional Airport

text: between Abilene (ABI) and Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) were being flown with Embraer ERJ-140 and Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. Abilene Regional Airport Abilene Regional Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) southeast of Abilene, in Taylor County, Texas. It is within the Abilene city limits and owned and operated by the City. Most operations at the airport are general aviation and military training. Abilene Regional is currently served by one airline, Envoy Air operating as American Eagle, with eight (8) daily Embraer regional jet flights to Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW). American Eagle introduced an additional regional jet flight to DFW

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: "Dallas side" or the "Fort Worth side", or in "the Arlington area," which is almost directly south of the airport. It is nominally between the two major east-west interstates in the region (I-20, passing to the south of both downtowns, and I-30, connecting Dallas and Fort Worth city centers). Dallas and its suburbs have one of the highest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the United States. Business management and operations is a major part of the economy. The metroplex also contains the largest Information Technology industry base in the state (often referred to as Silicon Prairie or the Telecom Corridor,

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: country and the sixth-largest in the world. It is even the third-busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft movements and the world's seventh-busiest by passenger traffic, transporting 62.9 million passengers in FY 2014. Based in Fort Worth, American Airlines' headquarters are adjacent to DFW. Recently having regained the title as the largest airline in the world in terms of both passengers transported and fleet size, American is a predominant leader in domestic routes and operations. Love Field Airport (IATA airport code: DAL) is located in northwest Dallas. Based in Dallas, Southwest Airlines is headquartered next to Love Field.

title: Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport

text: of Brownsville-Corpus Christi-San Antonio-Austin-Dallas Love Field-Tulsa-Kansas City. During the summer of 1967, Braniff was continuing to operate BAC One-Eleven jet service into the airport with a daily routing of Brownsville-Corpus Christi-Houston Hobby Airport-Dallas Love Field-Wichita-Kansas City-Chicago. By 1974, Braniff was flying Boeing 727-100 and Boeing 727-200 jetliners nonstop to both Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with direct service to Washington, D.C., Detroit, Amarillo and Lubbock. In the fall of 1979, Braniff was operating three daily nonstop Boeing 727 flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth with direct one stop service to New York City via John F. Kennedy International Airport

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: HOV lanes exist along I-35E, I-30, I-635, US 67, and US 75. I-20 bypasses both Dallas and Fort Worth to the south while its loop, I-820, goes around Fort Worth. I-635 splits to the north of I-20 and loops around east and north Dallas, ending at SH 121 north of DFW Airport. I-35E, Loop 12, and Spur 408 ultimately connect to I-20 southwest of Dallas, completing the west bypass loop around Dallas. A large number of construction projects are planned or are already underway in the region to alleviate congestion. Due largely to funding issues, many of the new projects

text: airport was renamed Meacham Field after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. Meacham was Fort Worth's airline airport until April 1953 when major carriers moved to Amon Carter Field (later Greater Southwest International Airport). The January 1953 OAG shows 50 weekday airline departures from Meacham, 33 of which headed for Dallas. None of the others flew nonstop north of Wichita Falls, west of Midland, south of Austin or east of Dallas. Since 1953 Meacham Airport has been used for corporate aircraft, commuter flights, and student pilot training. It was renamed in 1985 to Fort Worth Meacham Airport and in

title: Fort Smith Regional Airport

text: nonstop flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth with Convair 580 turboprops. Frontier began serving Fort Smith in 1967 when it acquired Central Airlines which had operated flights from the airport since the mid 1950s. At the time of the merger with Frontier in 1967, Central was providing service from Fort Smith to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Kansas City, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Tulsa and other destinations with Convair 600 turboprops and Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft. Frontier then continued to serve these destinations from Fort Smith. Central began serving the airport during the mid 1950s with Douglas DC-3 flights to Dallas and Fort

title: University of Dallas

text: (modern and contemporary art, plus two others; many students choose to create their own independent coursework). Because the UD art faculty are linked to the Dallas - Ft. Worth arts community, there are often graduate field trips to various Dallas - Ft. Worth art institutions, such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Modern in Ft. Worth, and several others. Beatrice Haggerty In 1994 a “Belong, Believe, Become” campaign was launched to fund the completion of the entire art village. Haggerty promised the “seed money,” remarking: “I would like to see the art center finished.” The

title: History of African Americans in Dallas-Fort Worth

text: History of African Americans in Dallas-Fort Worth There is an African-American community in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. "Black Enterprise" magazine has consistently ranked Dallas as a "Top 10 city for African-Americans". In the mid-1800s lynchings of African Americans took place in Dealey Plaza. In the late 1800s there were over 11,000 black people in Dallas. In the 1990s the number of African-Americans making annual incomes of $100,000 or more (adjusted to $75,000 as of 1990, from the circa 2005 number) increased by 300%. Around 2005 increasing numbers of African-Americans moved to suburban communities in Dallas County. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex

title: Memorial Field Airport

text: - Hot Springs - Shreveport - Houston (Hobby Airport). In later years from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, several commuter airlines served Hot Springs with nonstop propjet flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW). Rio Airways, Scheduled Skyways and Lone Star Airlines all flew Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners nonstop to DFW. Rio previously flew Beechcraft 99 turboprops nonstop to Dallas/Fort Worth and Memphis. Lone Star operated Dornier 328 propjets on the DFW route as well. In addition, Executive Express operated Piper Navajo twin prop aircraft to DFW. Memorial Field Airport Memorial Field Airport is three miles southwest of the City of

title: Geology of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex

text: a modern metropolitan area, because it could not have grown so large until mechanical transportation systems made the Trinity disadvantage in river navigation insignificant. Geology of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Dallas–Fort Worth sits above Cretaceous-aged strata, dates ranging from ≈145-66 Ma (million years ago). These Cretaceous-aged sediments lie above the eroded Ouachita Mountains and the Fort Worth Basin, which was formed by the Ouachita Orogeny. Going from west to east in the DFW Metroplex and down towards the Gulf of Mexico, the strata gets progressively younger. The Cretaceous sediments dip very gently (about 1°) to the east. The geology of

text: Geology of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Dallas–Fort Worth sits above Cretaceous-aged strata, dates ranging from ≈145-66 Ma (million years ago). These Cretaceous-aged sediments lie above the eroded Ouachita Mountains and the Fort Worth Basin, which was formed by the Ouachita Orogeny. Going from west to east in the DFW Metroplex and down towards the Gulf of Mexico, the strata gets progressively younger. The Cretaceous sediments dip very gently (about 1°) to the east. The geology of the DFW Metroplex consists of gently tilted sediments of mostly Cretaceous age, which also obscures a much older geologic record. Sediments older than Cretaceous

title: Chinese Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: complex leading to the center being renamed China Town. As the population began to move northward, similar complexes with Asian restaurants, supermarkets, and businesses were established in Plano and other Collin County cities. A significant number of Chinese Americans in the area have either converted to or were born into Christianity. In 2012, there were six Chinese churches in Plano. As of 2016 the Taiwanese airline EVA Air operates a shuttle bus service from Richardson to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas so Dallas-based customers may fly on its services to and from Houston. Chinese Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth

title: Robert Mueller Municipal Airport

text: and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets into the airport at this time. In 1981, American Airlines began service into Mueller, followed in 1983 by United Airlines and USAir (which was renamed US Airways and subsequently merged with American Airlines). American was flying nonstop to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW), Chicago O'Hare, and Corpus Christi during the early 1980s and was operating Boeing 727-100s and 727-200s as well as McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and wide body McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jets into the airport. American introduced Austin's first wide body service with nonstop DC-10 flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth and would later operate the Boeing 767 to

title: Transportation in Dallas

text: and Dallas Love Field. In addition, Dallas Executive Airport (formerly Redbird Airport), is a general aviation airport located within the city limits, and Addison Airport is another general aviation airport located just outside the city limits in the suburb of Addison. Another general aviation airport, Denton Municipal Airport is located northwest of Dallas in Denton. Two more general aviation airports are located in the outer suburb of McKinney, and on the west side of the Metroplex, two general aviation airports are located in Fort Worth. DFW International Airport is located in the suburbs north of and equidistant to downtown Fort

title: Dallas

text: (DFW) and Dallas Love Field (DAL). In addition, Dallas Executive Airport (formerly Redbird Airport), serves as a general aviation airport for the city, and Addison Airport functions similarly just outside the city limits in the suburb of Addison. Two more general aviation airports are about north of Dallas in McKinney, and another two are in Fort Worth, on the west side of the Metroplex. Alliance Airport, in far North Fort Worth, is a cargo reliever airport to DFW and general aviation facility. DFW International Airport is in the suburbs slightly north of and equidistant to Downtown Fort Worth and Downtown

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (officially designated the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Office of Management and Budget), encompasses 13 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. Residents of the area also refer to it as the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, DFW, or the Metroplex. It is the economic and cultural hub of the regions of North (North Central) Texas, and it is the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex's population is 7,399,662 according to the 2017 U.S. Census estimate, making it the largest metropolitan area in both Texas

text: History of Mexican Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth There is a rapidly growing Mexican-American population in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Sol Villasana, the author of "Dallas's Little Mexico", wrote that "Mexicans have been part of Dallas since its beginning." In the 1870s the first significant groups of Mexicans came to Dallas as railroad lines were constructed. Additional Mexicans settled Dallas as a result of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, 3,378 Mexicans lived in Dallas. In the early 20th century, wealthier Mexicans lived in Little Mexico and in the historical red-light area of Dallas

text: the metroplex. Stop Six is a historically black neighborhood in Fort Worth. In 2005 Mansfield had 62 households of African-Americans with annual incomes of at least $100,000; there were none in 1990 with the equivalent ($75,000). That same year, the median income of African-American households in Rowlett was higher than the overall median income for that city. In the late 1800s there were two black doctors in Dallas, and in 1954 there were 18 black doctors in that city. McMillan Sanitarium, a healthcare institution for blacks in what is now Uptown Dallas, created by Walter R. McMillan, opened in the

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: employer in the metroplex. Several major defense manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter Textron, and Raytheon, maintain significant operations in the metroplex, primarily on the "Fort Worth side." They are concentrated along State Highway 170 near I-35W, commonly called the "Alliance Corridor" due to its proximity to the Fort Worth Alliance regional airport. ExxonMobil, the #2 corporation on the Fortune 500 listings, is headquartered in Irving, Texas. Toyota USA, in 2016, relocated its corporate headquarters to Plano, Texas. Southwest Airlines hold their headquarters in Dallas. The airline has more than 53,000 employees as of October 2016 and operates more than

title: Jack Brooks Regional Airport

text: The latest chapter with regard to passenger airline service at the airport involves the resumption of service by American Eagle on behalf of American Airlines to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW). Jack Brooks Regional Airport covers and has two paved runways: 12/30 is 6,750 x 150 ft (2,057 x 46 m) and 16/34 is 5,070 x 150 ft (1,545 x 46 m). In the year ending January 31, 2007 the airport had 59,010 aircraft operations, average 161 per day: 82% general aviation, 11% air taxi, 7% military and less than 1% scheduled commercial. In August 2017, there were 89 aircraft based at

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: hub era, DFW was one of only four U.S. airports to have scheduled Concorde service; Braniff commenced scheduled Concorde service from Dallas to Washington from 1979 to 1980, using British Airways and Air France aircraft temporarily re-registered to Braniff while flying within the United States. British Airways later briefly flew Concorde to Dallas in 1988 as a substitute for its ordinarily scheduled DC-10 service. Following airline deregulation, American Airlines (which had already been one of the largest carriers serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area for many years) established its first hub at DFW on June 11, 1981. American finished moving its

text: Arts and Letters both in downtown. In Fort Worth, The Lenora Roll Heritage Center Museum and National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum houses history highlighting African-American culture primarily in the North Texas region. In Irving, the Jackie Townsell Bear Creek Heritage Center is a museum that tells the story of Bear Creek of West Irving, one of the oldest established black communities in North Texas. Dallas Black Giants and Dallas Green Monarchs were black baseball teams. Dallas Black Pride is a celebration event established by the metroplex's growing black gay community. History of African Americans in Dallas-Fort Worth There is an

text: a Mexican American. It was established on September 15, 1918. Christina Rosales of "The Dallas Morning News" wrote that it "has been credited with starting the Tex-Mex craze in the U.S." Pizza Patrón, headquartered in Dallas, markets itself to Mexican American families. It was established by Antonio Swad, a person not of Mexican origins. History of Mexican Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth There is a rapidly growing Mexican-American population in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Sol Villasana, the author of "Dallas's Little Mexico", wrote that "Mexicans have been part of Dallas since its beginning." In the 1870s the first significant groups of

title: Abilene Regional Airport

text: management. Many area residents drive to the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport rather than fly out of ABI, and airlines have always apparently faced a challenge with regard to operating profitable jet service into ABI. The advent of 50-seat regional jets has the potential to provide air service with such aircraft from Abilene to more cities. Air freight service to Abilene is provided primarily by subcontractors. The airport was formerly served by major carriers; UPS and USPS now primarily truck their overnight packages in from Dallas-Fort Worth, and most Abilene-bound FedEx Express shipments are sent through Lubbock. Native Air (formerly Southwest

title: Chinese Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: Chinese Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area has a population of Chinese Americans (both recent immigrants and Americans born of Chinese descent). In the second half of the 19th century, the area became permanently settled by non-Native Americans, and citizens of Chinese descent began to make the area their home as well. In modern times, the main population of Chinese Americans is scattered around the northern suburbs of the City of Dallas. The first person of Chinese descent listed in the Dallas city directory is J.L. Chow. He began boarding at the Central Hotel in 1873 and

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: Southland Conference headquarters are in Frisco. Note: Venues are listed with their current names, not necessarily those in use when an event took place. Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (officially designated the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Office of Management and Budget), encompasses 13 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. Residents of the area also refer to it as the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, DFW, or the Metroplex. It is the economic and cultural hub of the regions of North (North Central) Texas, and it is the largest inland metropolitan area in the United

title: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth In 2014, Dallas' Oaklawn district was voted the number one gayborhood in the country by Out Traveler. According to a 2006 study by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has the largest gay population in Texas. The first pro-LGBT event in DFW occurred in 1972; it was an unorganized march in Downtown Dallas. The first official gay pride parade took place in June 1980. The Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs Road area serves as North Texas' largest gayborhood and is home to Dallas' vibrant gay nightlife.

title: History of Nigerian Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: Nigeria. The Igbo and Owerri people have ethnic associations in DFW. As of 2007 large numbers of Nigerian immigrants in the DFW area have post-secondary education, and almost all of them had received secondary education. Most universities in the metroplex have an African student organization that is usually composed mostly of Nigerians. The "Africa Herald" is published in Dallas. As of 2014 the publisher is Richard Nwachukwu. "The African International" is also published in DFW. History of Nigerian Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth The Dallas-Fort Worth area has one of the largest Nigerian American populations in the United States. Many Nigerians

text: and flow over salt-bearing Permian sediments, well west of the Trinity headwaters. The Trinity is consequently sweeter water than either the larger Brazos or Red rivers. Life is better and easier near sweet water, and this simple fact helped DFW prosper relative to settlements on the larger rivers to the north and south. Because the Trinity is not suitable for navigation, the Metroplex could not have grown to be a large city until the railroad arrived, which happened early in the Metroplex's history, in the early 1870s. ("See: History of Dallas, Texas (1874-1929)") The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is thus truly

title: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: Oaklawn district. As of 2000 the Dallas Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), an LGBT-friendly church, has 3,000 members, making it the largest MCC in the United States. Cathedral of Hope is the largest LGBT church in the world. LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth In 2014, Dallas' Oaklawn district was voted the number one gayborhood in the country by Out Traveler. According to a 2006 study by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has the largest gay population in Texas. The first pro-LGBT event in DFW occurred in 1972; it was

title: Dallas Executive Airport

text: In addition, the Dallas Police Department operates their helicopter(s) from Dallas Executive Airport. During 2017 extensive work was done to improve the existing runways and more work is currently being done in 2018 to extend runway 13/31 to improve access to higher-performing aircraft. Dallas Executive Airport covers and has two runways: Dallas Executive Airport Dallas Executive Airport , formerly Redbird Airport, is a public airport six miles (10 km) southwest of Downtown Dallas, in Dallas County, Texas. The airport is used for general aviation and is a reliever airport for Dallas Love Field. In 2013, the Commemorative Air Force announced

title: Huntsville International Airport

text: hubs: Delta served Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, Eastern served Atlanta, American served Dallas/Fort Worth and Nashville, Northwest served Memphis, and United served Chicago and Washington Dulles. However, United and American offered nonstop service to Birmingham, United continued to offer nonstop service to Knoxville, and Delta had a daily flight to Memphis. United pulled out entirely by 1995, while USAir entered the market in the early 1990s with multiple daily flights to Charlotte. Currently only American Airlines and Delta Air Lines operate main line jets into the airport. American has McDonnell Douglas MD-80s nonstop to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) with some flights

text: Late Cretaceous marine reptiles such as Mosasaur are found. One species of Mosasaur was named after the city: "Dallasaurus turneri". Dinosaur Valley State Park is located in Glen Rose Texas off 67 and 144 which is south west of Fort Worth. Dinosaur Valley State Park has some of the worlds best preserved dinosaur tracks. The types of tracks came from the carnivorous Theropod, and the vegetarian Sauropod. Woodbine Formation located between Dallas and Fort Worth consists of marine and terrestrial fossils such as concretions and trace fossils, including the last known dinosaurs in this part of Texas. Directly east of

text: History of Nigerian Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth The Dallas-Fort Worth area has one of the largest Nigerian American populations in the United States. Many Nigerians of Igbo origin began leaving Nigeria after the Biafra war of 1967-1970. Since then Dallas received several persons of Nigerian origin, and by the 1980s the Nigerian community in Dallas formed. As of 2000, within the counties of Dallas, Denton, Collin, and Tarrant, there were 7,300 persons who were born in Nigeria, making up about 1% of the total foreign-born population of these four counties. As of 2005 most of the Nigerian immigrants come from

title: Abilene Regional Airport

text: Gulfstream I business propjet. In 1984, Chaparral was operating nonstop flights from Abilene to Austin (AUS), Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) with direct, one stop service to San Antonio (SAT) via Austin. Chaparral would eventually become an American Eagle air carrier flying code share service on behalf of American Airlines. Abilene Regional Airport covers and has three asphalt runways: 4/22, 3,678 x 100 ft (1,121 x 30 m), 17L/35R 7,198 x 150 ft (2,194 x 46 m), and 17R/35L 7,202 x 150 ft (2,195 x 46 m). In June 1952 it had four runways (045-079-129-180 deg) 3200

title: Fort Smith Regional Airport

text: 1970s, the original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) was operating Boeing 737-200 jetliners and Convair 580 turboprops from the airport with nonstop service to Dallas/Ft. Worth. By the late 1970s, Frontier had added Boeing 737-200 jet flights nonstop to Little Rock and Tulsa with direct one stop 737 service to Memphis and Oklahoma City in addition to nonstop 737 jet flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth. During the early 1980s, Frontier was flying nonstop Boeing 737-200 jet service to Atlanta and Wichita. The 737 flights to Wichita also provided one stop direct service to Denver. At this same time, Frontier was continuing to operate

title: Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery

text: Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery located in the city of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas (USA). Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of 2014, had over 41,000 interments. Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery was established in 2000 on the eastern shore of Mountain Creek Lake north of Dallas Baptist University. It is the sixth National Cemetery created in Texas and was created to meet the future needs of American veterans, nearly 1.5 million of whom live in the state of Texas. It currently has space

title: Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery

text: for over 280,000 interments. It already serves as the resting place for several soldiers who have died in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan (2001–present). Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery located in the city of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas (USA). Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of 2014, had over 41,000 interments. Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery was established in 2000 on the eastern shore of Mountain Creek Lake north of Dallas Baptist University. It is the sixth National Cemetery created in Texas

text: early 1900s. In 1995, the city of Dallas elected its first black mayor Ron Kirk. He held office from 1995 to 2002. Dallas' Black Chamber of Commerce was established in 1926 and is the oldest in the United States. Fort Worth and some surrounding cities also have a black chamber of commerce. The "Dallas Weekly" is the largest African-American centric publication based in the region. The "Dallas Examiner" is the other most widely circulated African-American centric publication based in the metroplex. Other black newspapers include the Dallas edition of "African-American News & Issues", "Black Economic Times", "Community Quest", "The Dallas

title: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

text: headquarters from Grand Prairie, Texas to a building in Fort Worth located on the site of the old Greater Southwest Airport, near DFW Airport on January 17, 1983; the airline began leasing the facility from the airport, which owns the facility. By 1984, the American hub occupied most of Terminal 3E and part of Terminal 2E. American's hub grew to fill all of Terminal 2E by 1991. American also began long-haul international service from DFW, adding flights to London in 1982 and Tokyo in 1987. Delta Air Lines also built up a hub operation at DFW, which occupied most of

title: Jack Brooks Regional Airport

text: also served the airport with Convair 580 turboprops followed by Saab 340 turboprops with nonstop service to Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) on behalf of American Airlines. USAir Express served the airport as well on behalf of USAir (now US Airways) with nonstop Beechcraft 1900C turboprop service to New Orleans (MSY). In addition, a number of independent commuter airlines served Beaumont/Port Arthur at various times over the years including Metro Airlines with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Short 330 turboprop flights nonstop to Houston (IAH) as well as nonstop Short 330 service to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Royale Airlines with Embraer

title: Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs

text: Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs The Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs were an American minor league baseball team in the Texas League from 1965–1971. The team played in Turnpike Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Spurs were created when the Triple-A Dallas Rangers moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1965. With the opening of Turnpike Stadium, the Double-A Texas League's Fort Worth Cats, an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, moved into the new venue and adopted the regional Dallas-Fort Worth designation and the Spurs nickname. The Spurs were affiliated with the Cubs (1965–1967), Houston Astros (1968) and Baltimore Orioles (1969–1971). As a Cubs' affiliate, the

title: Demographics of Dallas–Fort Worth

text: to a study by the Pew Research Center Dallas is 78% Christian,1% Jewish, 1% Muslim, and 18% Non Religious. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has a robust and diverse LGBT population. The Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs Road area serves as Dallas's gayborhood. Demographics of Dallas–Fort Worth As of the 2010 United States census, there were 6,371,773 people. The racial makeup of the MSA was 50.2% White, 15.4% African American, 0.6% Native American, 5.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 10.0% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 27.5% of the population. The median income

title: Lafayette Regional Airport

text: Orleans as well as two nonstop flights a day to Alexandria, LA with continuing service to Little Rock via stops in El Dorado, AR and Camden, AR in addition to maintaining its two flights a day schedule to Shreveport and Dallas. Flights to Houston were then introduced during the 1960s which were operated with Douglas DC-3 and Convair 240 propliners followed by Convair 600 turboprops. By 1969, Trans-Texas Airways had changed its name to Texas International Airlines. The first jet service into the airport was operated by Texas International Airlines (TI) with Douglas DC-9-10 twinjets to Houston, Dallas/Ft. Worth, New

title: Dallas Executive Airport

text: Dallas Executive Airport Dallas Executive Airport , formerly Redbird Airport, is a public airport six miles (10 km) southwest of Downtown Dallas, in Dallas County, Texas. The airport is used for general aviation and is a reliever airport for Dallas Love Field. In 2013, the Commemorative Air Force announced that they would build a "National Airbase" at Executive which would include their headquarters and main museum, both of which would be moved from Midland. As of 2016 The Commemorative Air Force has established their headquarters at the airport and currently occupies a hangar on the southeast side of the airfield.

text: operated continuing, no change of plane service to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Albuquerque and Los Angeles (LAX). By 1983, Continental had begun operating nonstop service to IAH with Boeing 727-100 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jetliners. Ozark Air Lines served Brownsville as well during the early and mid 1980s with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jetliners with nonstop flights to both Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Antonio with continuing one stop service to the airline's St. Louis (STL) hub. In the fall of 1984, Royale Airlines was operating three Douglas DC-9-10 jet flights a day nonstop to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) via a passenger feed agreement

title: Dallas Love Field

text: airlines were transferred from Fort Worth's previous airline airport, Meacham Field, to Greater Southwest, leaving Love Field and Greater Southwest as the only air transportation options for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The February 1953 C&GS diagram shows runway 7 (4301 ft), runway 13 (6201 ft) and runway 18 (5202 ft). On June 1, 1954 Runway 7/25 was closed; it was later removed to allow terminal expansion. Love Field then had two runways: Runway 13/31, the main runway, and the shorter 18/36. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 52 weekday departures on Braniff, 45 on American, 25 Delta, 21 Trans-Texas,

title: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: related the DFW LGBT community. The producers of the "Dallas Buyers Club" film used this archive. The Stonewall Democrats of Dallas is an LGBT political club in the area. Gay for Good has a Dallas-Fort Worth chapter. The Resource Center broke ground on a new LGBT community center expected to be completed in 2016. The $8.7 million project is located in Oaklawn and will be one of the largest LGBT community centers in the nation. Due to the HIV/AIDS infection rate in Dallas, the highest in Texas, and due to a lack of HIV testing programs in Dallas, University of

text: southern Nigeria. As of 2014 the numbers of Igbo Nigerian Americans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were in the ten thousands. Several Nigerian community leaders in the DFW area stated that there were up to 50,000 Igbos in the region. In 2005 Dennis D. Cordell and Manuel Garcia y Griego, authors of "The Integration of Nigerian and Mexican Immigrants in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas," wrote that "virtually all Nigerians arriving in the DFW, even the most recent cohort in 2000-2004, came with high levels of spoken English." This is due to the fact that most Nigerians coming to DFW historically came

title: Demographics of Dallas–Fort Worth

text: a very large Mexican-American population. As of 2009, Salvadoran Americans are the second largest Hispanic and Latino ethnic group in DFW. They often settle in the same areas occupied by Mexican-Americans. In 2000, of the Salvadorans in Dallas County, 47% are in the City of Dallas. That year, 3.6% of the foreign-born in Dallas were from El Salvador. There is a small Salvadoran settlement in East Dallas. As of 2009, in Irving the Salvadoran-origin people are 11.8% of those born outside of the United States; this percentage is larger than the average percentage of Salvadorans in Dallas-Fort Worth area cities.

text: students and towards Hispanic students, and the fact that many Hispanics have moved into traditionally black neighborhoods. Paul Quinn College is the only HBCU in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. In 1961 Bishop College, a black college in Marshall, moved to Dallas. In the late 1940s Texas Vocational School provided former soldiers vocational courses. The metroplex is also home to one of the largest HBCU football classics in the country with the State Fair Classic. Notable African-American cultural point of interest includes the African-American Museum of Dallas in Fair Park and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and The Black Academy of

title: Taos Regional Airport

text: Westward in 2005. During the winter ski season of 2000/2001, Ozark Airlines (later changing to Great Plains Airlines) operated twice weekly flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth using 32-seat Fairchild Dornier 328JETs. Taos Regional Airport Taos Regional Airport is a public use airport located eight nautical miles (15 km) northwest of the central business district of Taos, in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. It is owned by the Town of Taos. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is classified as a "general aviation" airport. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

title: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth

text: Fort Worth. Thomas Anable helped move the parade to its current location. In 2011 Mayor of Fort Worth Betsy Price served as the Grand Marshal. Also the Fort Worth (Tarrant County) gay community established an annual gay & lesbian film festival (QCinema), gay rodeo, and eight gay bars/clubs. The Out Takes Dallas Lesbian & Gay Film Festival occurs in Dallas. The PlayPride LGBT Festival, an annual playwright competition held by the TeCo Theatrical Productions, held its first event in 2014. In 1980, the Turtle Creek Chorale was founded. It has become the largest and most prominent predominately gay men chorus

title: Abilene Regional Airport

text: Abilene Regional Airport Abilene Regional Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) southeast of Abilene, in Taylor County, Texas. It is within the Abilene city limits and owned and operated by the City. Most operations at the airport are general aviation and military training. Abilene Regional is currently served by one airline, Envoy Air operating as American Eagle, with eight (8) daily Embraer regional jet flights to Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW). American Eagle introduced an additional regional jet flight to DFW on August 19, 2014 thus increasing the number of flights to this major American Airlines hub. Continental Connection

title: Legoland Discovery Center Dallas Fort Worth

text: been opened. Legoland Discovery Center Dallas Fort Worth was opened in March 2011. Legoland Discovery Center Dallas Fort Worth Legoland Discovery Center Dallas Fort Worth is an indoor family entertainment center located at Grapevine Mills mall in Grapevine, Texas, which is situated between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. The attraction includes Lego-theme rides, a soft play area, a 4D cinema and a gift shop. The center is owned and operated by British leisure group Merlin Entertainments. Lego bricks were invented by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1958. The first Legoland Discovery Center was opened in Berlin

title: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association

text: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) is an organization of 31 print, radio/TV and internet journalists from Dallas–Fort Worth-based publications. Current members include Robert Wilonsky and Chris Vognar of "The Dallas Morning News", Denton Record-Chronicle's Preston Barta, Film Threat's Chase Whale, Twitch Film's Peter Martin, and Peter Simek of "D Magazine". In December of each year, the DFWFCA meets to vote on their Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards for films released in the same calendar year. In December 2006, the "Miami Herald" described the association as "one of the most reliable bellwethers of

text: the Academy Award for Best Picture." Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) is an organization of 31 print, radio/TV and internet journalists from Dallas–Fort Worth-based publications. Current members include Robert Wilonsky and Chris Vognar of "The Dallas Morning News", Denton Record-Chronicle's Preston Barta, Film Threat's Chase Whale, Twitch Film's Peter Martin, and Peter Simek of "D Magazine". In December of each year, the DFWFCA meets to vote on their Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards for films released in the same calendar year. In December 2006, the "Miami Herald" described the association as "one

text: Paleozoic rocks, and weakly metamorphosed sedimentary rocks from the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma constitute a large part of the Woodbine. Transgression continued to occur after the deposition of the Woodbine, and created the Colorado Group which first created the Eagle Ford Shale which lies directly beneath west Dallas. The Eagle Ford Shale had sea level depths of around ≈100m or 330 ft, and occurred around 20–50 km from the shore. The depositional environment in the lower beds was low-energy and a slightly anoxic setting. This anoxic setting of the deeper waters in the ocean is a result several factors including

title: Abilene Regional Airport

text: airline's livery. American Eagle replaced these propjets with Embraer regional jets. Texas State Technical College provides aviation maintenance training at its on-field hangar base. American Airlines was serving Abilene during the mid 1930s as the airport was a stop on American's daily overnight service between Dallas and Los Angeles. American served the airport with 12-passenger Curtiss Condor aircraft which featured sleeper berths with these flights operating a routing of Dallas Love Field - Ft. Worth - Abilene - Big Spring, TX - El Paso - Douglas, AZ - Tucson - Phoenix - Los Angeles. By the late 1940s, American was

title: British Caledonian in the 1980s

text: on frequency or fares. Routes to San Juan, Puerto Rico's Isla Verde International Airport, and Dallas/Ft. Worth followed on 26 October. It also enabled the airline to replace the Boeing 707s, with which it had inaugurated another new route to St. Louis in April of that year, with its newly delivered DC-10 widebodies at the end of October when St. Louis became a stop on the new Dallas route. During that year, the company also added Tangier to its North African network. This accelerated pace of growth made BCal the fastest growing member airline of the Association of European Airlines

title: Clovis Municipal Airport

text: to where the aircraft would fly the western portion of the service with a stop in Amarillo, TX rather than Clovis. Transcontinental Air Transport went on to merge with Western Air Express and form what would become Trans World Airlines (TWA). In 1948 a new carrier, Pioneer Airlines, began serving Clovis with the airport being one of several stops on a route between Albuquerque and Dallas. The other stops included Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and Tucumcari, NM as well as Lubbock, Abilene, Mineral Wells, and Ft. Worth, TX. Initially the airline used 21-seat Douglas DC-3 aircraft but upgraded to the

title: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

text: fertile and more rocky soil than that of the Texas blackland prairie; most of the rural land on the Fort Worth Prairie is ranch land. A large onshore natural gas field, the Barnett Shale, lies underneath this area; Denton, Tarrant and Wise counties feature many natural gas wells. Continuing land use change results in scattered crop fields surrounded by residential or commercial development. South of Dallas and Fort Worth is a line of rugged hills that goes north to south about that looks similar to the Texas Hill Country to the south. The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are

text: Airlines began direct flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Mobile, and later Nashville, using MD-83s and Boeing 727s. In the early 1990s, the airport's name became "Jackson International Airport" since it has facilities for international flights (of which it has none scheduled). It has an office for U.S. Customs to service international arrivals and has established a Foreign Trade Zone. The airport also welcomed US Airways as a new carrier during this time, gaining nonstop service to Charlotte and for a time, to New Orleans, before the latter service was eliminated by all carriers. Trans World Airlines began Trans World Express service

title: Tucson International Airport

text: Airlines but it wouldn't be until December of that year that the first planes began service. In April 1957 airlines scheduled 21 departures a day: 15 American, 4 TWA and 2 Frontier. The first jet flights were operated by American Airlines with Boeing 707 and Boeing 720B jetliners around September 1960. During the mid and late 1970s, American was flying wide body McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jets nonstop to Dallas/Ft. Worth and also to Chicago via an intermediate stop in Phoenix. By the late 1980s, American was operating Boeing 767-200 wide body jetliners from the airport with nonstop service to Dallas/Ft.

title: Fort Worth Alliance Airport

text: Fort Worth Alliance Airport Fort Worth Alliance Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located north of the central business district of Fort Worth, city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by Ross Perot, Jr. The official groundbreaking ceremonies were held in July 1988, and the airport officially opened on December 14, 1989. The airport is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed

text: interval. The sediments deposited during these 20 million years are bound within a sequence boundary, and are defined by a major regression at the end. The time frame of the Comanche Series span between ≈118-98mya, and are responsible for the deposition of the Trinity, Fredsrickberg, and Washita Groups. These three Groups all lie west of the Balcones Fault Zone, and span from slightly west of Weatherford to the east side of Fort Worth. The Trinity Group is best known for the Glen Rose Formation that lies within it. The 40–200 ft thick beds of the Glen Rose formation are composed

title: Lafayette Regional Airport

text: Orleans and other cities. Texas International introduced jets into Lafayette with the DC-9 in the early 1970s. TI also served the airport with Convair 600 turboprops. In February 1976 Texas International was operating direct DC-9 jet service from Los Angeles (LAX) to Lafayette with six intermediate stops en route via Albuquerque, Roswell, NM, Midland/Odessa, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Beaumont. By 1979, Texas International was operating ten jet flights a day from Lafayette with Douglas DC-9-10s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s nonstop to Houston, New Orleans, and Lake Charles, LA with direct, no change of plane jet service to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver,

text: routes. It is also the closest commercial airport to South Padre Island. This airport included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a "primary commercial service" facility. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 82,723 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 80,350 enplanements in 2009, and 84,401 in 2010. The National Weather Service forecast office for deep south Texas is located on the airport grounds. The airport currently has scheduled nonstop passenger flights to two destinations in Texas: Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Houston (IAH). New scheduled nonstop passenger jet service

title: The Gentlemen (Dallas band)

text: members Bruce Bland on bass and Tommy Turner on keyboards. This incarnation solidified into a driving rock band that was a popular live act. They played venues such as Louann’s Club and The Studio Club in Dallas and Panther A’Go-Go and The Box in Ft. Worth. Later that year, The Gentlemen would open for James Brown at the Dallas Convention Center. A family friend of Mike Kelly was involved with the bookings there, and said he was looking for a band to open and play four or five songs. We were offered $500 and eagerly accepted. According to Tim Justice: