Dallas Love Field Airport

Dallas Love Field Airport helps to connect people, places, moments, and opportunities through airport experiences that are efficient and welcoming. Dallas Love Field (DAL), commissioned on October 19, 1917, began as a training base for the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I. Named for Army Lieutenant Moss Lee Love, who perished during flight training and had no connection to Dallas, the airport maintained the tradition of honoring Army aviators who perished while on duty.

Today it is the 32nd-busiest airport in the United States and the busiest medium-hub airport despite its federally mandated cap of 20 gates and barring of international travel. Before the COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected air travel in 2020, Love Field saw its highest enplanements in 2019 at 8.4 million. Since then, passenger volumes have rebounded, allowing the airport to experience a new record with 17.59 million passengers traveling in and out of Dallas Love Field airport during the 2023 calendar year, a 10 percent increase compared to 2022.