DFW in Top Three for Best Large Airport in North America in Annual USA Today 10Best Voting

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Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport finished among the top three in voting for Best Large Airport in North America in the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice 2020 results announced today.

As one of 20 airports nominated in the Large category (airports serving more than 15 million passengers annually), DFW Airport was the highest ranked Texas airport and finished behind only Orlando International Airport and Tampa International Airport in the overall online voting.

DFW Airport offers the most nonstop flights to domestic destinations of any airport in the United States, now at 193 nonstop domestic destinations with the addition of 14 new nonstop destinations in 2019. The Airport served more than 73 million passengers in FY2019, a 6.1 percent increase from the previous year and a record total.

Voting for the Best Large Airport category began Dec. 16, 2019 and ran through Jan. 13, 2020.

Source: DFW

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