Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Arlington PD Answers All Your Questions About Its "Aviation Unit," Which Consists Entirely of Two Drones

The Arlington Police Department recently got permission from the FAA to use the two small, battery-operated drones they purchased last year using grant money from Homeland Security. Presumably, the drones will mostly be used to hover over Jerry Jones while he's at work, clipping him in the head with ... More >>

Dallas County Adds Domestic Partner Benefits As Commissioner Maurine Dickey Calls Lesbian Activist a "He"

This morning, Dallas County joined the growing roster of local agencies (the city of Dallas, Parkland Hospital, the DFW Airport) to add domestic partner benefits, meaning same-sex partners of any of its roughly 6,500 employees are now eligible for health coverage and other benefits through the count ... More >>

Call Me When DART's Orange Line Gets to the Airport

DART already had the longest light rail system in the country before the $1.3 billion Orange Line added another three stations and several miles with its debut this morning. Sure, DART's soon-to-be 90 miles of track are dwarfed by the subway system in New York City, the L in Chicago, and Washington ... More >>

Funding Still Uncertain, DART Continues Planning For Cotton Belt Rail Corridor

The Cotton Belt Regional Rail Corridor, will someday stretch some 60-plus miles from Wylie to southwest Fort Worth. If, of course, DART and its partner agencies can find the money for the $2 billion project, envisioned as a public-private partnership. DART spokesman Morgan Lyons points me to the Nor ... More >>

Clear CEO Touts Those Members-Only Scanners at DFW, Which Open Today

When it was announced last week that CLEAR, "the nation's pre-eminent biometric secure ID program," was setting up shop at DFW Airport's Terminal E, it struck me as odd. Seemed that TSA was abdicating some of its responsibility to a private company, which of course it was, but I had to track down th ... More >>

DART is Expanding Paid Parking to the DFW Station, So Good Luck Finding a Free Spot

I know what you're thinking: Come December, when DART opens its station at DFW Airport, you'll just slide your luxury vehicle into one of the 597 brand-new parking spaces at the Orange Line terminus while you hop on Lufthansa for your European ski holiday. After all, there's plenty of space. DART sa ... More >>

If Amtrak and TxDOT Can Swing It, You'll Be Able to Take Train From Dallas to Shreveport

​Saw that AP piece this morning about how Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation are looking at connecting Dallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport-Bossier City, which would involve inserting a stop at the Trinity Railway Express's CentrePort/DFW Airport station. But the piece isn't clear: Shoul ... More >>

DART Wanted $130 Mil In DOT Funds For Line to DFW. It Got Much Less. But Anything Helps.

​Only yesterday we noted the Dallas Area Rapid Transit is ready to go on that final leg of the Orange Line that'll connect with Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The price tag's steep: $149,750,000 for the third section of the Orange Line, from Belt Line Station to DFW. And t ... More >>

"We Must Correct This Nightmare": Betty Culbreath to Take on Her Former Boss, JWP

​One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, '07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it's time for John Wiley Price to go. ... More >>

Um, Shouldn't You Have Asked Me These Questions Before I Got on the Plane?

​Got home from the airport last night just in time to see Channel 8's piece on how Dallas PD and the FBI are prepping for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Would have been home a little sooner, but, ya know, I stopped by a Northwest Highway construction site. Oh -- and I was briefly detained b ... More >>

Guys Behind That DFW Airport "Stuck" Video on How They Made It and Reaction To It

​You probably remember this: End of the day Tuesday we posted that video shot during the wee small hours of the morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in which West Coast photographers Joe Ayala and Larry Chen are having a cute, no-harm-no-foul home-alone moment at an American Airlines ... More >>

Ex-Miss USA Says She Was "Molested" By TSA at DFW, Then Told to Fill Out Complaint Card

​On the other side's a video that started making the rounds yesterday (courtesy Alex Jones and FOX News) in which 2003 Miss USA winner-turned-actress Susie Castillo cries into a camera while recounting a particularly invasive pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Castillo -- sp ... More >>

LEGO My Dallas-Fort Worth Landmarks

Photos by Danny Hurley​Yesterday, our Danny Hurley was among the media members granted sneak-peek access the Grapevine Mills LEGOLAND Discovery Center, which officially opens Wednesday. I'm not saying Danny's influenced by the work of a certain then-6-year-old photographer, but without a doubt the ... More >>

Living At, and Around, DFW Airport

Via.​About four years back, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda ID'd Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the city center of the future -- the so-called aerotropolis. Well, Kasarda's turned his article into a full-blown tome that just landed in the mailbox: ... More >>

Striking Cabbies Leave Taxis Parked in the Road to Shut Down Traffic into Love Field. Says Mayor: Protest Is "Slap in the Face" to City.

Patrick MichelsA tow truck operator loads one of seven stranded cabs hauled away from Love Field earlier tonight.When a crowd of independent cabbies kicked off their Super Bowl week boycott last week -- upset by the city's preferential treatment for CNG-powered cabs and frustrated their past strike ... More >>

Jon Stewart Spends 22 Minutes With T. Boone Pickens, "The Wilt Chamberlain of Fracking"

​Speaking of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas ...Mayor Tom Leppert was deeply involved in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's decision (after much debate and delay) to spend $210 million to convert its liquefied natural gas and clean diesel bus fleet to CNG. Mayor Tom was also deeply i ... More >>

As Virgin America Deflowers DFW, A Few Questions, Such As: What's Next? And How?

Andrea GrimesRichard Branson on the DFW tarmac following Virgin's official debut at DFW​At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But mere weeks a ... More >>

Why is American's Admirals Club Fare Not Fit For an Officer -- Or Anyone Else?

Kristy YangThe scotch is free once you get inside the Cathay Pacific Lounge in the airline's home of Hong Kong.​For those fortunate enough to have airline-club access this busy holiday traveling season, the question must be asked: Why is the food selection at DFW-based American Airlines Admira ... More >>

In Trinity Trust News: Calatrava Party Plans! And, the Promise of a "More Humane City."

Last night I espied this billboard in a TV trailer for Country Strong, which clearly takes place in the distant future. The Dallas Trinity Arena can be found next to Ray's Sporting Goods. Or Austin, home of Hornitos.​The Trinity Trust this morning sends further details concerning the grand opening ... More >>

And Now It's Time For Your Semi-Regular Parking Rate Increase at Love Field Airport

​Two years ago, the council's Economic Development Committee took a long, hard look at parking rates at Love Field and agreed with the recommendation that it gradually hike prices "over several years" for several reasons -- among them, Love Field's just too cheap, and it'll help offset some of the ... More >>

News & Notes: Hooray for the Ever-Expanding Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Blockbuster Keeps NYSE Listing and American's "YADA" Yada

U.S. Census Bureau​A little light lunchtime reading ...To begin with, the U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates today, and, as usual, Texas -- and the DFWA (as in, Arlington) -- fared bestest in all the land. "Star of the Sun Belt," says here. And that means you, Frisco and McKinney ... More >>

Ron Kirk Injured in Grand Prairie Car Wreck. And DPS Has Answers About Tollway Crash.

Rock CunananDPS has determined what led to Wednesday morning's crash on the tollway.​Didn't intend to end the day with three (or four, if you will) auto-related items, but that's how we roll:First, this breaking news courtesy KTVT-Channel 11: Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, now President Obama's tra ... More >>

Two Infrastructuralists Look at What Dallas Is (And Isn't) Doing. And Why.

​Below, a Friend of Unfair Park takes note of the cynicism aimed at the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park and wonders, "I wonder how this would have been received if the Trinity debacle had never occurred?" At the same time, urban planner Patrick "Car-Free" Kennedy has penned a sprawlin ... More >>

SMU, UT Researchers Think They've Found Cause of North Texas Quakes

Courtesy SMUSeismologist Brian Stump installing equipment to find the cause of the quakes near DFW Airport​SMU just sent word: Its seismologists, Brian Stump and Chris Hayward, joined by researchers from the University of Texas, have found evidence that could very well link those North Texas earth ... More >>

The Juice is Loose on AA Flight 614

​Too bad we still don't do our Ask An American Airlines Spokesman bit. Could come in handy on a day like today, which we begin, thanks to one good Friend of Unfair Park, with Dallas consultant Dave Koss's lengthy tale of an AA flight attendant's bizarre response to a first-class passenger's reques ... More >>

Up In The Air Steers Clear of the Predictable Route, Lands the Emotion

Free I-Voted-Today Doughnuts. Is There Anything They Can't Do?

AA Flight Attendants to Work the Picket Counter at DFW Tomorrow

Maybe Nastia Will Get Another Gold After All. Doubt It, But, Still.

PETA Suggested New Revenue Stream for Dallas-Fort Worth International

A Lawsuit Over the Barnett Shale -- Look Out, Tommy Lee Jones!

DFW Airport Wants to Thoroughly Check Your Naked Body

Shattered Glass: Or, This Morning's Question for AA's Tim Wagner

AA Flight 48, From DFW to Paris, Sounds Like One Hell of a Trip

Your Spring Break Trip Just Got Officially Effed

The Ex-Gay Way

We Dallasites Are a Weak, Ugly People

Tarmac Attack!

Cruisin' with Cuban

Just a Plane Sword

It's a Secret, No Doubt

Flights of Fancy

It's Your Call, Mayor Laura

No Cone For You

Time Warp

Star Bright

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