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5 unusual facts about Greater Southwest International Airport


Greater Southwest International Airport

The airport's IATA airport code, GSW, is still in use by the American Airlines Flight Academy, which sits across State Highway 360 from the airport site.

The airport never reached capacity and saw its traffic dwindle while traffic at Love Field in Dallas continued to grow.

On December 20, 1959, jet service began with American Airlines Boeing 707 flights to Los Angeles.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened in 1974 a few miles north of the airport to replace both Greater Southwest and Dallas Love Field as the single main airport for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (though Love Field survives).

In 1964, the Federal Aviation Administration, tired of funding separate airports for Dallas and Fort Worth, announced that it would no longer support both.



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