- IATA
- DFW
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KDFW
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1974
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 85.7M
- in 2025
History & name
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport opened in 1974 and takes its name from Dallas, Fort Worth and the wider Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It is 25 km from Dallas, has 7 runways up to 4,085 m, and handled 85.7 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
- Serves
- Dallas-Fort Worth, United States
- City centre
- 25 km from Dallas
- Opened
- 1974
- Passengers
- 85.7 million in 2025
- Runways
- 7 runways, longest 4,085 m
- Elevation
- 607 ft (185 m)
- Website
- dfwairport.com ↗
Where it sits
32.9°N, 97.0°W puts DFW in the northern hemisphere, 3,658 km from the equator and 6,350 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 275th most northerly, which makes it the 387th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 32.9°S, 83.0°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (MRU) in Mauritius, still 2,858 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Dallas Love Field (DAL), 19 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from DFW
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 13,808 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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