Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

North Texas Senators Beg TxDOT Not to Screw Up This High-Speed Rail Thing

Texas Central Railway's plan, announced almost a year ago now, to build a high-speed rail line linking Houston and North Texas has hit a not altogether unexpected complication: inter-city squabbling over where the bullet train will stop. In Mobility 2035, its long-term vision for transportation in ... More >>

Is The Federal Government Outsourcing Airport Security at DFW?

Yesterday, a company named Clear, which bills itself as "the nation's pre-eminent biometric secure ID program" announced that it will set up shop at DFW Airport's Terminal E on June 27. Says the news release, the company's "innovative biometric technology combined with members-only lanes allows trav ... More >>

Groupon, TNT Team Up to Offer Super Cliched Dallas Getaway, In Honor of the Ewings

This is the type of weirdness that the re-boot of Dallas has created. The show premieres tonight on TNT -- we'll see you at the Angelika, right? -- and in celebration, the channel and Groupon are giving away a deal that a journalism school grad turned Groupon copywriter predictably felt compelled t ... More >>

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How Did 65-Year-Old Woman Manage to Get Gun Through DFW Airport Security, Anyway?

Via.​No doubt you've heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sent out a press release early this morning; a c ... More >>

Stephan Pyles To Pack High-End Airport Lunch Boxes at DFW

Flickr​Airline dining has been synonymous with substandard eats forever, as multiple decades of prepackaged, lifeless meals have graced our flimsy fold-out tray tables. We've became collectively aware of a basic and undeniable fact: This stuff is absolutely terrible. In response, airlines ha ... More >>

DART Prez: Orange Line to DFW's Terminal A Will "Complete That Big-City System"

Dallas Area Rapid TransitA rendering of the Belt Line Station on the Orange Line, the last stop before Dallas-Fort Worth Airport's Terminal A come 2014​Last night Dallas Area Rapid Transit sent word that its board of directors signed off on the design-build contract that'll push the under-construc ... More >>

Mayor Mike Rawlings Offers American Airlines and Its Employees His "Emotional Support"

​Over the course of the day a few items have rolled in related to American Airlines and AMR's Chapter 11 filing this morning. Among them: A Q&A from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about how the bankruptcy might but probably won't affect the airport (it follows in full); and a statemen ... More >>

Spirit Offers Another DFW-to-Chicago Option

​On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only f ... More >>

How Not to Bring Dope Through DFW Airport

Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection​As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to ... More >>

Before Seven Years' Worth of Construction, DFW International Airport Introduces Its "Future"

​No doubt you're well aware by now that Love Field Airport is undergoing its so-called modernization program. But Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport wants to make sure you're well aware of the fact it too is about to undergo, oh, seven years' worth of renovations beginning in 2011. Which is w ... More >>

Fares on the Trinity Railway Express Now Fair

​Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, sends word this morning likely to be hailed as good news for riders of the Trinity Railway Express: Starting December 6, the fare zone boundary is moving two miles west -- from the West Irving Station in Dallas County to the CentrePort/DFW Ai ... More >>

And You Thought You Had a Bad Experience at Dallas-Fort Worth International That One Time

​Word o' the day today on the Urban Dictionary: "gate rape." As in: "The TSA airport screening procedure." Perhaps some students in Cle Elum, Washington, will find it on their chalkboard this morning, following their teacher's recent pass through DFW International Airport. Please turn to Page B1 o ... More >>

Haunted Gallery

Now, Look, Mayor Tom is Nobody's Intern

Virgin AmericaRichard Branson and two friends announce Virgin America's arrival at DFW Airport in August.​A few weeks back, you no doubt recall, Virgin America announced that in December, it would begin flying out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The announcement was made in Houston, at ... More >>

DFW International Airport Now a Virgin: Service to LA, San Francisco Begins in December

This is how Virgin America is advertising its flights from DFW to LA and San Francisco this morning.​On the other side is the full announcement from Dallas/Fort International Airport concerning  Virgin America's decision to go west, young man: On December 1, the just-turned-3-year-old carrier ... More >>

And, To Top It Off.

​I called Jim this morning at 6:30 -- wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning's "topping-off" ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too. Maybe even Dave Neum ... More >>

Are Vonciel Hill and Carolyn Davis About to Call Out the Mayor? (Update: Apparently Not.)

Sam MertenDMN'er Rudy Bush thought I was taking a picture of him walking into the meeting, but I assured him I was merely capturing City Manager Mary Suhm with a smile on her face, which he agreed is rare these days given the city's $130 million budget shortfall.​The second meeting of the city ... More >>

What the Frack?

This morning's Wall Street Journal investigates the cause of the 18 earthquakes that have rattled the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2008 -- from just east of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport down to Cleburne most recently -- and concludes, well, ya know, not really sure. Because on the one han ... More >>

For that Special Someone on Your List, How About an AA Flight Simulator?

There's a small but interesting item of note on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Facility Improvement Corporation Board's meeting agenda today -- and, right, whatever that is. Seems American Airlines is looking to unload one of its flight simulators. It's not for one of the big planes, th ... More >>

Leppert Tells Channel 11 He's Calling For an Investigation Into DFW Spending

DFW CEO Jeff Fegan Needs His Space And Will Pay Handsomely For It

Wither DFW International?

United's Rolling Up the Red Carpet

Take That, Naomi Klein!

Hey, Tim Wagner. Some Questions.

DFW International Has New Web Site. Wow, Just in Time!

Love the Love Field Master Plan? Take a Look for Yourself.

Introducing, Ahem, Southwest Airlines' Newest Symbol of Freedom

Since Tuesday, Some Navy Recruits Have Been Living at DFW Airport

In a Couple of Years, You Can Live at DFW Airport ... On Purpose

Update: The Fear of Landing

"Responsible" Docs Recommend DFW Airport If You Need to Eat and Fly

No Stalling at DFW Airport

But Who's the Mayor of Airport City?

Yes, But Is She Jewish?

DFW Airport Doesn't Fly with Salon

Don't Let the Screening Process Hit You in the Ass on the Way Out

Welcome Home

No, Thanks, I'll Take the Bus

Expect Delays

The Wright Flight Flies into D.C.

D/FW Whistleblower to (Finally) Get Day in Court

Southwest: They Do PR Wright

Too Much Information

Whatta Load

Enough is enough

Legend Airlines accuses Fort Worth of discrimination and demands that feds cut funds

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

Busted

Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

Clueless

For city Councilman Al Lipscomb, taking handouts from power brokers has become a way of life. Is there a problem?