Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport filed a statement Monday supporting American Airlines’ application for rights to fly from D/FW to Shanghai, China.
Combined with American’s plans to fly D/FW-Hong Kong, “it would make DFW a major U.S. gateway to Asia for Texas and the entire Southern Tier of the United States,” the airport said.Points from the airport’s filing:
– The scheduled times would make “convenient connections” for travelers in Texas and southern United States at American’s D/FW hub.
– Dallas/Fort Worth Airport is the world’s ninth busiest airport and the fourth busiest in the United States.
– The D-FW metroplex is fourth largest in the U.S., one of the fastest growing, home for 23 Fortune 500 companies and has the sixth largest economy of U.S. metro areas.
– “American’s proposal will remedy the fact that DFW is the largest U.S. city without nonstop China service today.”
– “Equally important the new DFW-Shanghai route will help DFW keep pace with its rival Southern Tier gateways – Atlanta and Houston – in terms of service to China. Both Atlanta and Houston have nonstop China service today provided by Delta and Air China, respectively. American’s new Shanghai service, combined with its announced DFW-Hong flights, will make DFW the premier Southern Tier gateway to China and the whole of Asia.”
– “Grant of these China frequencies to American for DFW-Shanghai would also make effective and immediate use of unused limited-entry rights.” With 25 weekly frequencies available, the daily flight to Shanghai would leave 18 still unclaimed.
American announced last Wednesday that it intended to start the Hong Kong and Shanghai routes in June 2014. It applied for the Shanghai authority on Thursday.
Source: Aviationblog.Dallasnews
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