{"id":6961,"date":"2019-12-07T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2019-12-07T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:15:49","slug":"american-airlines-announces-new-investments-at-dfw-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6961","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Announces New Investments at DFW Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Investments as airline expands global network from DFW, improves customer experience<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 American Airlines has announced plans to build a new, larger catering kitchen at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The new facility is part of American\u2019s long-term growth strategy at its largest hub, and will allow the airline to better serve customers as it grows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investment reaffirms American\u2019s commitment to grow and improve customer experience at DFW. In addition to the new kitchen, construction is also slated to begin ona a state-of-the-art aircraft parts distribution facility, which will help reduce maintenance delays by providing parts from DFW to American\u2019s global network.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year alone, American has expanded at DFW by adding 15 more gates and increasing the amount of flying to 900 daily departures. Additionally, the airline introduced a Flagship Lounge to serve premium customers travelling to international destinations. The growth is part of a larger strategy that will continue as American continues to invest in the operational efficiency and customer experience initiatives at DFW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDFW remains a great source of opportunity and growth for American,\u201d said Cedric Rockamore, American\u2019s Vice President of DFW of Hub Operations. \u201cThese investments will ensure we can continue to welcome the world to and through DFW for a very long time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catering kitchen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>American will build a new catering kitchen to support DFW\u2019s current and future catering demands. The new facility will replace the existing catering kitchen, which was built in 1982 and is too small to support the airport\u2019s growing operation. Construction on the new kitchen will begin in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn addition to more space, the new kitchen will provide updated equipment and efficiencies to improve our catering operation, which improves our reliability and provides a better experience for our customers,\u201d Rockamore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $100 million construction project will take about 18 months to complete and supports the first phase of development for DFW\u2019s new Terminal F. This phase includes four new gates and customer areas located on the southeast corner of Terminal D and is scheduled to open in 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kitchen will continue to be staffed and operated by LSG Sky Chefs, the airport\u2019s largest catering vendor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Central Fulfillment Center and cargo mail facility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>American plans to break ground in January 2020 on a new Central Fulfillment Center that will house aircraft parts for line maintenance support across our network. The 390,000-square-foot facility will enable the airline to fulfill request for parts up to 75% faster, minimizing potential maintenance delays. Locating this facility at DFW enhances our ability to distribute parts for overnight maintenance throughout the network.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will also include a facility for cargo mail, a key revenue stream and narrowbody product for American Airlines Cargo. The expanded space will allow the Cargo team to optimize fleet, network and market demands for transporting mail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terminal expansion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To support the demand for additional growth, DFW continues to develop new and optimize existing terminal spaces. These efforts include two new gates and customer areas at Terminal E, which American will utilize to support summer 2020 flying, and the continued development of Terminal F.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the first phase of development for Terminal F underway, details of the additional phases will be developed as American and DFW continue to study infrastructure demands and customer needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2f3ee96c-5c55-4b23-8979-5bc6571214b4_750x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2f3ee96c-5c55-4b23-8979-5bc6571214b4_750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2f3ee96c-5c55-4b23-8979-5bc6571214b4_750x422-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines has announced plans to build a new, larger catering kitchen at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The new facility is part of American\u2019s long-term growth strategy at its largest hub, and will allow the airline to better serve customers as it grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,3965,89,5637,8222,5992,2203,5500,1397,8970,868,1103],"tags":[4145,464,420,118,92,116,3790,160,1864,1293,9143,8237,1604,3590,3796,5077,766,8273,6475,2284,243,5802,4026,801,2916,2665,3649,1483,1329,760,3973,1915,1883,1125,9142,199,4741,5486,1843,2419,1716,9144,9145,2510,7348,3762,1936,718,412,1557,8230,1958,594,5405,1978,755,3668,7726,4058,3967,9148,190,1691,1658,9102,761],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-stock-news","category-texas-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-adding","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-american","tag-announces","tag-aviation","tag-body","tag-cargo","tag-catering","tag-chefs","tag-construction","tag-customer","tag-customers","tag-daily","tag-dallas","tag-delays","tag-departures","tag-destinations","tag-dfw","tag-distribution","tag-expands","tag-expansion","tag-experience","tag-facility","tag-flagship","tag-fleet","tag-flying","tag-fort","tag-gates","tag-global","tag-growth","tag-hub","tag-improves","tag-international","tag-investments","tag-kitchen","tag-largest","tag-long","tag-lounge","tag-lsg","tag-mail","tag-maintenance","tag-more","tag-narrow","tag-network","tag-new","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-optimize","tag-parts","tag-premium","tag-reduce","tag-revenue","tag-sky","tag-strategy","tag-stream","tag-term","tag-terminal","tag-terminal-f","tag-texas","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travelling","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6963,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}