BizAv Receives New Facility At DFW Airport

Anticipating a heavy influx of business jets for February’s Super Bowl, Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport is moving business aviation operations to a refurbished airline passenger terminal. The switch occurs Dec. 9th. “It was time to improve our facilities as a regional operation,” a DFW spokesman explains today. He says the airport has invested in upgrading the former American Eagle terminal on the northeast side, which has been empty since the regional carrier moved its operations to Terminal B some five years ago. The facility has 8,500 sq ft of meeting and lounge space. Up until now business aviation crews and passengers were crowded into a small, prefabricated trailer-like building – “I don’t know that it’s really a trailer, but it looks like it,” he admits – in the southwest part of the field. The airport recorded some 2,700 business aircraft arrivals in 2009, and forecasts those numbers will continue to grow, particularly during the week before Super Bowl XLV, which is to take place on Feb. 6, 2011. It was estimated that some 300 business jet flights will deliver 4,000 passengers that week.