Dallas Love Field Airport

Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport in the Love Field neighborhood, 6 miles northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas. It covers an area of 1,300 acres and has two runways, and was the main airport in Dallas until 1974 when Dallas Fort Worth International Airport opened. Southwest Airlines has a 95% market share at the airport and is headquartered and has a major operating base there. The airport is named after Moss L. Love, a US Army pilot who died in an airplane crash in 1913, and was established in 1917 as a flight training base for the US Army Air Service. The airport played a significant role in World War I and was later deactivated and converted into a storage facility in 1919.learn more on wikipedia