Fort Worth Alliance Airport Fort Worth, TX
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N 32° 59.167 W 097° 18.748
14S E 657676 N 3651012
Fort Worth Alliance Airport features a vast array of flight services and is the cornerstone for the nation's fastest-growing industrial complex. There is no finer facility for general and industrial aviation than Fort Worth Alliance Airport.
Waymark Code: WM5N5V
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2009
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Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration and Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by H. Ross Perot, Jr. The official groundbreaking ceremonies were held in July 1988, and the airport officially opened on December 14, 1989. The airport is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillwood.
Alliance is a cargo hub for FedEx Express and is a maintenance base of American Airlines.
Alliance filled in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the TV drama LAX.
By the 1990s, the annual passenger air traffic at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had exceeded the airport's capacity, and a solution was proposed to repeal the Wright Amendment and open Alliance Airport to passenger service, effectively providing DFW with two reliever airports. But DFW opposed the solution and no passenger service was introduced at Alliance Airport.
In April 2004 Alliance Airport operating company Hillwood entered in to a management contract with EP-Team (Energy & Projects Team) for sales and marketing development to attract Cargo Airlines to the airport. EP-Team is a Project Freight/Logistics Management company with its Head Office in Dallas, Texas.