Dallas Fort Worth International celebrated 50 years of operation earlier this year – an American Airlines flight was the first commercial service to land at the airport on 13 January, 1974.
The airport was the largest in the world when it opened as DFW Regional Airport, initially serving nine airlines across four terminals, three runways and 66 gates.
Fast forward half a century and the airport welcomed an estimated 80 million passengers in 2023, with flights operating to 256 destinations worldwide. It remains the world’s third largest airport by land area, and now has a total of seven runways and 171 gates, and a sixth terminal is set to break ground later this year.