Air Service Location & Access • Direct flight time from DFW to nearly any city in the continental U.S. takes four hours or less. (DFW Airport) DALLAS/FORT WORTH MSA Delta Denton Collin Hunt Travel Times by Air From DFW Wise City Miles/km Travel Time Dallas Kaufman Rockwall New York, NY (NYC) 1371mi / 2205km 3 hrs. 15 min. Parker Tarrant Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 1247mi / 2006km 2 hrs. 56 min. Ellis Johnson Toronto, ON, Canada (YTO) 1202mi / 1934km 2 hrs. 50 min. DALLAS METROPOLITAN DIVISION Mexico City, Mexico (MEX) 931mi / 1497km 2 hrs. 32 min. FORT WORTH Paris, France (PAR) 4926mi / 7925km 9 hrs. 30 min. METROPOLITAN DIVISION Tokyo, Japan (TYO) 6455mi / 10386km 14 hrs. 25 min. Source: OAG North America Executive Flight Guide • The Dallas region is served by 12 international and 22 domestic airlines, including DFW International based American Airlines and Dallas Love Field based Southwest Airlines. (DFW Airport) Location Top 5 U.S. Airports Total Operations 2007 • The DFW Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is comprised of two Atlanta (ATL) 994,346 Metropolitan Divisions, Dallas on the east and Fort Worth on the west. Chicago (ORD) 927,834 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) 684,779 DFW Total 2007 Population Los Angeles (LAX) 681,445 Fort Worth Metropolitan Division Las Vegas (LAS) 614,169 County Name Population Source: www.airports.org/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54-57_9_2_ Johnson 155,900 and www.dfwairport.com Parker 116,200 Note: Operations = Movements Tarrant 1,745,050 • DFW International Airport is the 3rd busiest airport in the United Wise 63,050 States and has nonstop service to 164 international (37) and domestic Metro Division Total 2,080,200 (127) destinations. (DFW Airport) Dallas Metropolitan Division DFW Airport – International Routes County Name Population Collin 724,900 Dallas 2,417,650 YYC YVR YUL LCW FRA Delta* 5,237 YYZ CDG ZRH ICN Denton 599,350 NRT MTY CUU TRC NAS GDL AGU Ellis 144,500 CUN PVR MEX CZM MBJ ZIH SLP LIR BJX ACA GUA BZE Hunt 90,150 SAL CCS Kaufman 98,350 SJO Rockwall* 73,500 14 Mexico 4 South America 4 Canada Metro Division Total 4,153,727 5 Central America GRU 4 Europe 2 Asia EZE Total MSA Population 6,233,927 2 Caribbean SCL Sources: North Central Texas Council of Governments, Texas State Data Center 35 Nonstop International Routes *Estimate Source: DFW Airport D DFW Airport – Domestic Routes • DFW's central U.S. location is equally close to North America’s five to ANC SEA largest business centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico PDX SYR BOS MSP BDL City and Toronto. MSN ROC GRR BUF JAC MKE EWR LGA DTW PHL JFK Transit Time and U.S. Population Served from DFW CID ORD MDT • The region’s central time zone SMF RNO MDW CLE IAD OMA DSM MLI FWA BWI SFO OAK PIT SLC HDN PIA SJC DEN CMH DCA CMI IND DAY FAT EGE MCI location, one hour behind the CVG RIC MTJ COS STL ORF GUC EVV LAS SGF LEX GSO BUR ONT ICT BNA TYS RDU east coast and two hours ahead of JAC PSP CLT MEM CHS SNA OKC TUL XNA HSV GSP SBA JLN CHA CAE ABQ SAN LAW FSM LIT PHX AMA ATL the west, extends the working SPS HOT TUS BHM SAV to HNL LEB TXK ELD to OGG SHV ELP JAX day for companies doing busi- ABI GGG MEU MAF ACT TYR JAN MOB AEX VPS SJT BTR GPT GRK CLL PNS ness on both coasts. AUS LFT MSY MCO SAT HOU IAH TPA • More than 50 million people can PBI LRD CRP FLL RSW Source: DFW Airport to SJU be reached from DFW overnight by MFE MIA % of U.S. Ring Hours Miles Population truck or rail and 98 percent of the Served • DFW International Airport has an annual impact on the North 1 10 600 16% U.S. population can be reached 2 24 960 37% Texas economy of more than $16.6 billion and supports nearly 3 48 1800 93% within 48 hours. (DFW Airport) Source: U.S. Department of Transportation 305,000 jobs. (DFW Airport) 20 Winter 2008/2009 – LOCATION & ACCESS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE Commercial Airports the world. Airports were rated on performance, value, facilities and Airport Runways Total Operations operations. (Air Cargo World, 2006) Lengths • In addition to DFW International, Love Field and Alliance Number (feet) 2007 2006 % Change Airports, the region claims 13 reliever airports in the area. DFW 8,500; 13,400; (Dallas Business Journal, Book of Lists, 2008) 7 13,400; 13,400; 685,491 699,344 -1.98% International 13,400; 9,000; 9,300 Dallas Love Reliever Airports 3 8,800; 7,750; 6,145 244,609 248,805 -1.68% Addison Airport Meacham International Airport Field Arlington Municipal Airport Fort Worth Alliance Airport Alliance 2 9,600; 8,200 236,801 250,479 -5.46% Collin County Regional Airport Grand Prairie Municipal Airport Airport Dallas Executive Airport Lancaster Municipal Airport Sources: DFW, Dallas Love Field and Alliance Airports Denton Municipal Airport Mesquite Metro Airport • Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport is the third largest Fort Worth Spinks Airport Terrell Municipal Airport in passenger activity in the world. DFW airport handled over Northwest Regional Airport 685,491 total operations in 2007 transporting over 797,511 tons of Source: Dallas Business Journal Book of Lists 2008 cargo and serving over 59 million passengers. (DFW Airport) • The Capital Development Program at DFW International has Roadways • Six interstate and seven other U.S. highways as well as numerous invested $2.7 billion into the Airport’s infrastructure over a five-year state highways serve the DFW region. time frame. This investment will generate an additional $34 billion in economic impact on the DFW regional economy and another Major Highways 77,000 new jobs over the next 15 years. (DFW Airport) • Dallas Love Field, conveniently located three miles from downtown Type ID Dallas, is a central hub for regional business and commuter travel. Interstate IH 20, IH 30, IH 35E, IH 45, IH35W, IH635 The Wright Amendment of 1979 originally limited most nonstop HWY 75, HWY 67, HWY 80, HWY 175, flights leaving Love Field to destinations within Texas and contigu- U.S. HWY 287, HWY 377, HWY 380 ous neighboring states. Additional flights were added in 1997 and • The NAFTA Superhighway (IH 35) extends from the Texas-Mexico 2005, and a law repealing the amendment was enacted in October border to northern Minnesota and serves both the Fort Worth and 2006 that effectively removes long-haul flight restrictions on Love Field by 2014. (Dallas Love Field) Dallas Central Business Districts. • Fort Worth Alliance Airport, located in North Tarrant County, is a • Fort Worth Alliance Airport an industrial facility designed to major industrial airport designed to meet air cargo needs. handle air cargo, offers access to three major highways, including the • DFW International Airport has almost 3 million square feet of “NAFTA” Interstate Highway 35, trunk lines to two trans-continental cargo facilities on site and is served by 56 carriers; 6 integrated, 21 rail carriers and one of the largest intermodal facilities in the country. all-cargo and 29 combination carriers, which offer local shippers and (Fort Worth Alliance Airport) forwarders access to markets throughout North America, South • Average commute time is 26.5 minutes in DFW. America, Europe and Asia. (DFW Airport) (U.S. Census Bureau) • Almost 65 percent of all international cargo in Texas is handled at DFW, some 797,511 tons in 2007. (DFW Airport) DFW Average Commute Times • An excellence survey administered in 2006 by Air Cargo World 2006 magazine rated DFW International Airport as the top cargo airport in Total Commuters 2,956,301 Mean Travel Time 26.8 DFW Freighter Destinations Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2007 13.5 hrs to Asia • Known as the nation’s largest inland port, DFW is a principal 9.5 hrs to Europe trucking and freight distribution center with over 600 motor/ trucking carriers and 100 freight forwarders. (North Central Texas Council of Governments) 6.5 hrs to South America Railways • All of the nation’s largest rail lines serve DFW and coordinate with motor and truck carriers at four intermodal freight centers. (North Source: DFW Airport Central Texas Council of Governments) • Dallas is a junction point on hundreds of rail through-routes. Approved New DFW International Service While most of the nation’s railroads are regional in nature, the estab- Carrier Serving Start Date KLM Droral Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Netherlands March 2008 lishment of joint rates and routes by the carriers provides the con- American Airlines San Salvador, El Salvador April 2008 tinued movement of freight when more than one carrier is required American Airlines Tampico, Mexico April 2008 to transport a shipment. Because of these agreements, the Dallas Source: www.dfwairport.com shipper is assured of delivery to any point in the U.S. DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG LOCATION & ACCESS – Winter 2008/2009 21 Rail Carriers Residents Type of Service Name Phone Number Major Railroads Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (888) 428-2673 • The Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) reported Kansas City Southern Railway (816) 983-1303 over 6 million residents in the U.S. Census 2006 American Community Union Pacific Railroad Company (402) 544-5000 Shortline Railroads Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad (972) 808-9800 Survey, making it the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the fourth Fort Worth & Western Railroad Company (817) 763-8297 largest metro in the country and larger than 35 U.S.