Nuts About Southwest

Beginning today, Dallas Love Field (DAL) will become Southwest’s eighth city with Express Bag Drop.  Joining Oakland, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago Midway, Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall, Orlando, and Los Angeles, DAL Customers who already have a boarding pass and need to simply check luggage will be able to bypass lines at the ticket counter and Self-Service Kiosks by using the Express 330 ... read more

Southwest has been operating from Love Field since June 18, 1971, and in these weekly posts, we have looked at some of our early operations at our home airport.  I thought it might be fun to take a look back at Love before Southwest, by using some postcards in my collection.  So let’s start with the terminal that was located off of Lemmon Avenue during the 1940s and 1950s.  This terminal ... read more

I love historical aerial photos because they not only freeze an object in time, they place the object in the context of its surroundings.  For example, I wrote an article for Trains magazine about Dallas Union Station, and in the Dallas Public Library’s photo collection, I found an aerial view of the terminal from the late 1940s.  The photo was a perfect companion to the article 104 ... read more

From the day the current Dallas Love Field terminal opened on January 20, 1958, the facility has been under constant modification.  Upper levels to concourses were added, the terminal expanded then contracted, operations shifted, and now the next renovation is underway which will consolidate all the gates into a new, state of the art concourse, along with new lobby areas.  One time of grea 110 ... read more