Third commercial airport for Dallas area? (McKinney, Addison: schools, taxi, property taxes)

[dallasboi]

No,No,No.

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by unknown00

Why would anyone vote no? All the massive expansion in DFW is north north north and just making the commute to any airport unbearable. They need an airport up north, please!!

It takes all of 20-30 minutes to drive from McKinney to DFW Airport. Southwest airlines has always had the ability to move to DFW also but they choose not to.

You would have massive amounts of Politics and money involved because of DFW Airport and the agreements between all the cities to get it built.

I doubt the Federal Government would ever agree to a new airport.

[jbb303]

There's nothing to agree to. The airport is already there.

[numbersguy100]

Originally Posted by jbb303

There's nothing to agree to. The airport is already there.

There are small airports all over the place. Southwest can't just start flying into one of them without approval from the FAA.

[ThomasCrown]

Originally Posted by numbersguy100

There are small airports all over the place. Southwest can't just start flying into one of them without approval from the FAA.

Not to mention, most of the smaller airports don't have runways long enough for larger commercial planes.

[jbb303]

McKinney has a 7000 foot runway. They can already land just about any commercial aircraft that they want. This has been in the works for years. The city wouldn't be pressing forward if they thought there was any chance of the federal government standing in the way. And, no, Southwest or American isn't likely to move anything significant there, but I could see Allegiant or Breeze ending up there. Breeze has previously expressed interest in expanding to this area. As for expansion at Love, the opposition has pockets deeper than the city's resolve. Mark my words. They will sue any serious plans into oblivion.

[unknown00]

Originally Posted by Rakin

It takes all of 20-30 minutes to drive from McKinney to DFW Airport. Southwest airlines has always had the ability to move to DFW also but they choose not to.

You would have massive amounts of Politics and money involved because of DFW Airport and the agreements between all the cities to get it built.

I doubt the Federal Government would ever agree to a new airport.

It's definitely not 20-30min, maybe if you're going 20+ mph above the limit, and this assumes no traffic.
Regardless of time, why not have it be 10min?

[Leonard123]

I hope the city's voters are not stupid enough to approve this bond. Unfortunately, they did elect our current mayor and city council, so I wouldn't put it past them.

I've seen no real analysis of what it would do to the property tax rates.

I've lived in McKinney over 30 years, and that airport is so far out, even I have never been anywhere around there! However, we do have two airports. I pass by Aero Country all the time.

[urbancuriosity]

Alliance has two nice 11000 foot runways....

[Beardown91737]

As much as I was going to say this won't work.. it might.

1. Looks like no expansion at Love, and Fort Worth isn't interested.
2. I used to say that third tier airlines stuck to first tier airports, but now Frontier is vacating LAX and adding at Ontario, so that could replicate in North Texas, though in this case I would see Frontier holding on to flights at DFW as well.
3. The area north, south and east of TKI is fairly undeveloped, not much objection will come from the landfills to the north or the golf courses to the south. Lots of room to have warehouses and bring in air freight.
4. No you can't get to DFW in 30 min, and when you do get there you have to drive mazes inside the airport property.
5. It looks possible to build a short extension of the Sam Rayburn Tollway to the south end of the airport, and from US 380 to the North end.