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.
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The airport never reached capacity and saw its traffic dwindle while traffic at Love Field in Dallas continued to grow.
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On December 20, 1959, jet service began with American Airlines Boeing 707 flights to Los Angeles.
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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).
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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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