Dallas Love Field

ICAO KDAL32.8448°N 96.8477°W487 ft / 148 mLarge airport

Loveapt-19feb1995 — United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL) is a large airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. It opened in 1914. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,800 ft (2,682 m). In 2025 it handled 16.6 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1914–1914

1914

OpenedDallas Love Field opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

13R/31L136° / 316° · LIT

LENGTH8,800 ft2,682 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete

13L/31R136° / 316° · LIT

LENGTH7,752 ft2,363 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

9.4M

14.8M

15.8M

15.9M

16.3M

16.8M

7.9M

13.5M

16.2M

17.8M

17.6M

16.6M

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Routes

11 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round7

HOUWilliam P. Hobby AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)386 km240 mi HOBLea County Regional AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)596 km370 mi APACentennial AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,036 km644 mi ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines1,158 km720 mi CSWCabo San Lucas International AirportMexico · JSX (airline)1,690 km1,050 mi LASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,714 km1,065 mi OPFMiami-Opa Locka Executive AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,778 km1,105 mi

Seasonal4

TSMTaos Regional AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)901 km560 mi DSIDestin Executive AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,019 km633 mi GUCGunnison Crested Butte Regional AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,108 km688 mi SCFScottsdale AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)1,402 km871 mi

Most destinationsJSX (airline) 10Delta Air Lines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DAL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Dallas Love Field” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers16.6M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#139of 3,974 · #39 North America · #33 US Longest runway8,800 ft2,682 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,953of 29,823 · =430 North America · =317 US Elevation487 ft148 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=27,341of 43,341 · =13,026 North America · =10,901 US AgeOpened 19142026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=81of 15,079 · =11 North America · #11 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

8 channels

APPRGNL APP124.300

ATISATIS120.150

CLDCLNC DEL127.900

DEPRGNL DEP118.550

GNDGND121.750

RDOFORT WORTH RDO122.300

TWRLOVE TWR118.700

UNICUNICOM122.950