Dallas
Love Field

Yes. Love Field is one of the busiest business aviation airports in the United States, with two parallel runways, a 24 hour tower and multiple fixed base operators. There are no slots and no PPR for private movements. The commercial restrictions that shaped this airport were never aimed at general aviation.

Two parallel runways, both grooved concrete and both 150 feet wide. 13R/31L is the main at 8,800 feet, and 13L/31R is 7,752 feet. Having a genuine parallel pair rather than a single strip is a large part of why the field absorbs the traffic it does.

Yes. Love Field is a designated US Customs user fee airport, so an international private arrival can clear here rather than being sent to Dallas Fort Worth. That is worth knowing, because the airport's scheduled service is domestic only and people often assume that applies across the board. It does not apply to private aviation.

It was a federal law from 1979 that restricted nonstop flights out of Love Field to Texas and adjacent states, deliberately channelling long haul traffic to Dallas Fort Worth. It expired on 13 October 2014. Two conditions from the 2006 settlement survive: Love Field is capped at 20 gates and scheduled service remains domestic only. Neither restricts private charter.

ILS or LOC to all four runway ends, 13L, 13R, 31L and 31R, plus RNAV GPS procedures. It is the best equipped airport in our Texas group and holds up in weather that would close a single-approach field.

FAR Part 139 Class I, Index C. That is a step above the Index B cover at most of the regional fields we operate into, and it reflects the size of aircraft the airport handles daily.

No. Several fixed base operators compete on the field, which generally means better pricing and availability than a single-FBO airport. We will recommend one based on the aircraft, the turnaround and where on the field you need to be.

About five miles northwest, which is the entire commercial argument for the airport. Dallas FortWorth is considerably further out, so for a meeting in the city Love Field usually wins on total door to door time even when DFW looks comparable on paper.

Love Field for anything going into the city. It is closer, quieter on the general aviation side and clears customs. Dallas Fort Worth makes sense when the aircraft is very large, when you are connecting to a scheduled long haul, or when Love Field ramp space is tight during a major event.

No slots and no PPR for private operations. The tower runs continuously and the field is attended around the clock. Ramp and hangar space during large Dallas events is the practical constraint rather than permission.

It opened in October 1917 as a US Army airfield training pilots after the United States entered the First World War. It is named after Lieutenant Moss L. Love, who in 1913 became the tenth fatality in US Army aviation history. The FAA records a civil activation date of October 1937.

It is where Air Force One was parked on 22 November 1963. After the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas that day, Lyndon B. Johnson took the presidential oath of office on board the aircraft at Love Field before it departed for Washington. It remains the only presidential inauguration to have taken place aboard an aircraft.

Yes, the airport and its tower operate continuously. Individual FBO hours vary, so we confirm line service timing against the schedule rather than assuming the field being open means the handler is staffed.

Central Time, CST in winter and CDT in summer, which is UTC-6 and UTC-5 respectively. Note this differs from the Colorado fields, which sit an hour behind on Mountain Time.