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Love Field Modernization Program
Dallas Love Field, Dallas Executive Airport, Downtown Vertiport
A $45 million City of Dallas enterprise
Operated by the Department of Aviation as a financially self-sufficient Enterprise Fund with $0 Taxpayer support
- Built in 1953 as a Work Projects Administration project, the Lemmon Ave. terminal was quickly outgrown
- Dallas Planners began Master Plan for Love Field
- Moved the terminal from Lemmon to Cedar Springs
- Corgan Associates was picked to design the new terminal
March 2011
- Love Field was opened on October 19, 1917 as a military airfield
- It was named after First Lieutenant Moss Lee Love, who died in an airplane crash in San Diego, California
- Love Field was opened to civilian use in 1927
- Considered the most modern airport of its time, the current Love Field Terminal ushered in the Jet Age.
- Existing terminal opened to airline service on January 20, 1958.
History
Changing landscape
Existing Terminal Area
New Terminal Footprint
Terminal Area Elements
Planning & Concept Alternatives
East Concourse:
American 3 Gates, Continental 2 Gates
Terminal 1 (Interim)
- 5-Party Agreement to seek full repeal of Wright Amendment
- Dallas, Fort Worth, DFW Airport, Southwest, and American Airlines
- Terms
- Gates reduced from 32 to 20
- Domestic flights only
- Repeal completely lifted in 2014
BHM
JAN
- Separate but coordinated planning efforts
- City – Planning study to determine traffic forecasts and terminal spatial requirements
- 2006 passengers – approx 6.5 mil
- 2008 passengers – approx 8 mil
- 2015 passengers – approx 11.8 mil
- 2025 passengers – approx 16 mil
- Southwest – Terminal concept development
- Developed 3 concepts to consider
West Concourse: Southwest Gates 1-15
Wright Amendment
- Wright Amendment was passed in 1979 to protect DFW Airport
- Could only fly within Texas and four neighboring states
- Updates to Amendment
- 1997 and 2005, additional states were added
Implementing Option C
Passenger Flow
Phase 1 (Aug 2008 – Dec 2009)
Enabling Projects
- Love Field’s role in market
- Dallas’s “neighborhood” airport
- Love Field’s attributes
- Convenient
- Easy to use
- Reliable
- Good level of service
- Project Goals
- Passenger Experience
- Operational Efficiency
- Sense of Place
- Sustainable Design
New Construction
Existing Facilities
- Demolish East, North and West Concourses and replace with new North Concourse with 20 gates
- New Ticket Hall
- Expanded Bag Claim
- Expanded Curbside
- Terminal Renovation
- Renovate and Expand West Concourse for 12 total SWA gates
- Demo North Concourse and rebuild in new location with 8 Gates
- New Ticket Hall
- Bag Claim Expansion
- Curbside Expansion
- Terminal Renovation
- Renovate West Concourse for 16 total SWA gates
- Temporary Gates on North Concourse to allow phased renovation of West, then become permanent location for AA and CO
- New T-Point and EDS Screening
- No work to Terminal Building or Curbside
The Front Door / Curbside Yesterday
The Front Door / Curbside Today
Phase 2 (Dec 2009 – Sept 2010)
CO/DL Gate Relocation, Demolition
Phase 3 (Oct 2010 – March 2013)
East Half Concourse Construction
Phase 4 (April 2013 – Sept 2014)
East Half Open, West Half Construction
October 2014
Full Concourse Open & Bag Claim Open
Terminal Tour: Departures
Terminal 1
Open October, 2010
Continental and Delta Airlines
The Front Door / Curbside Vision
The Front Door / Curbside 2014
Landside of Terminal
Airside of Terminal
Ticketing Wing
Main Lobby – Security Screening
Gate Concourse & Concessions
Connector – 2nd Level
The City of Dallas
Ultimate Goal
LFMP Completion – October 13, 2014
Wright Amend Repeal – October 13, 2014
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