DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Love-Field celebrated its 100th birthday today.
The field opened as an army flight training base on October 19, 1917.
Bob Montgomery is the Vice President of Airport Affairs for Southwest Airlines and said the airport is busier now that it has ever been before.
“We’ve got 180 flights a day. That translates to 67,000 flights per year and almost 100,000 seats,” he said.
The airline was established in 1967 by Herbert Kelleher and now has hundreds of flights flying in and out of the field every day.
“Just in the last two years we’ve grown 100 percent from 3 1/2 million passengers for all of Love Field to over 7 million passengers this year. Love Field is vibrant. Southwest’s purpose is to connect people with what’s important in their lives and this is ground zero for that effort,” said Montgomery.
Congressman Pete Sessions, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax and other local leaders spoke at celebration for the airport today.
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