Decline and Closure
In 1964 the Federal Aviation Administration, tired of funding separate airports for Dallas and Fort Worth, announced it would no longer support both. The Civil Aeronautics Board ordered the two cities to finally come up with a plan for a regional airport, and in 1965 a parcel of land north of Greater Southwest was selected for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. As traffic boomed at Dallas-Love Field it slumped at Fort Worth as most carriers tried to pull out; the last one left around the end of 1968. When Dallas-Fort Worth International opened in 1974 the FAA closed the runways at Greater Southwest as a safety precaution.
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