7+ mon, 3+ week ago (1782+ words) There aren't a lot of places, candidly, that you can take a look at 16,000 acres and say, you know, how can we build an aerotropolis, or a city around an airport? It's a phenomenal opp" Denver International Airport served more than 80 million passengers in 2024, generates more than $47 billion for the region annually and owns more land than any other airport in the world except for one, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd International Airport. DIA is the site of dozens of ongoing developments, including new hotels, a state-of-the-art flight training center and significant industrial growth. Airport representatives and municipalities are working together to transform surrounding undeveloped areas into an airport city," positioning DIA as a key hub for commerce in the region. Anytime that our team looks at real estate development on our land, we do so with the lens of making…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago (163+ words) The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop Thursday morning at Denver International Airport, causing delays for flights headed in and out of the airport. The FAA issued the ground stop at DIA at 7 a.m. for "low ceilings," which refers to the lowest level of cloud cover, according to the agency's website. The ground stop is scheduled through at least 8:15 a.m. Thursday. As of 7:30 a.m., 84 flights had been delayed at DIA and one had been canceled, according to flight tracking software FlightAware. Southwest delayed 62 of those flights, followed by eight from SkyWest, seven from United, three from Alaska Airlines, two from Volaris, one from Aer Lingus and one from American Airlines. The sole canceled flight was also a Southwest trip, according to FlightAware. Flights headed into DIA were experiencing up to 30-minute delays at 7:30 a.m. because of the ground stop, and FAA officials said…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (676+ words) After decades of passenger traffic growth at Denver International Airport, the surge has stalled this year, slowing progress toward Denver's 100 million travelers-a-year target. But DIA recently snagged first place among U.S. airports for nonstop domestic destinations " travelers can fly to 197 " and continues to set records for international traffic. This "connectivity, some analysts say, will be the ultimate measure of the airport's success. Denver's passenger traffic target has become "a stupid goal for measuring airport value, said Mike Boyd, a Colorado-based aviation industry consultant, because passenger metrics depend largely on whether airlines offer good deals " largely beyond DIA's control. "The real issue is how many points you can access from an airport. How many international flights can you access from here? Boyd said, adding that new nonstop flights from Denver to Morocco, Poland, and Spain would make sense. "The traditional thinking has…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago (126+ words) Travelers heading to and from Denver International Airport on the Regional Transportation District's A Line train will see up to 30-minute delays because of a signal problem, agency officials said Tuesday. RTD canceled 24 trips and said the train is now running every 30 minutes, with eastbound trains leaving Union Station at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past the hour. The westbound train from the airport into Union Station will leave at 12 minutes and 42 minutes past the hour. Updated service alerts are available online. Transportation officials reported the signal problem just before 10:30 a.m. DIA is expecting more than 845,000 passengers to pass through security during the Thanksgiving season and Tuesday will likely be one of the busiest days....

5+ mon, 23+ hour ago (168+ words) Nearly 500 flights were delayed Sunday at Denver International Airport amid a severe thunderstorm watch issued for the city and 13 other Colorado counties. As of 3:40 p.m. Sunday, 467 flights headed in and out of DIA had been delayed, but zero had been canceled, according to flight tracking data from FlightAware. Flights were seeing an average delay of 41 minutes at that time because of thunderstorms in the area, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA officials said a ground stop at DIA was possible after 2 p.m. Sunday, but one was not active at 3:40 p.m., according to the agency's website. Southwest delayed 193 flights on Sunday and 102 United flights failed to leave the gate on time, according to FlightAware. Other Sunday afternoon delays included 72 SkyWest flights, 21 Frontier flights, 19 American Airlines flights and 10 Delta flights. A dozen other airlines delayed between one and nine flights. This is a developing…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago (125+ words) A ground stop was issued Monday morning at Denver International Airport, delaying more than 100 flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA officials said flights trying to depart from the airport were grounded because of "low ceilings," an aviation term that refers to the height of the lowest cloud layer. As of 9:15 a.m., 107 flights had been delayed and three had been canceled, according to flight tracking software FlightAware. Southwest delayed 43 flights, followed by 32 from United and 16 from SkyWest. Six other airlines delayed between one and five flights. All three canceled flights were United flights, according to FlightAware. The ground stop is currently scheduled through 10 a.m. Monday, but it could be extended, according to the FAA....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago (201+ words) The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground delay at Denver International Airport on Wednesday for thunderstorms, preventing hundreds of flights from leaving the gate on time, according to the agency. Severe thunderstorms are forecast for the Interstate 25 corridor, including Denver and DIA, throughout Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service. Potential impacts include large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and tornadoes, weather service forecasters said. As of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, flights in and out of DIA were experiencing average delays of nearly 90 minutes, according to the FAA. Those delays are expected to reach up to 110 minutes by 7 p.m. as weather continues in the area, FAA officials said in the ground delay advisory. At 2:20 p.m., 531 flights had already been delayed and eight had been canceled, according to flight tracking data from FlightAware. Southwest had delayed the most flights at 256, followed by 142 United…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago (245+ words) As of 5:45 p.m. Sunday, 931 flights had been delayed and 11 had been canceled at Denver International Airport, according to flight tracking software from FlightAware. More than 900 flights going into or out of Denver International Airport were delayed Sunday and another handful were canceled as thunderstorms swept across Colorado. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for the Denver airport at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, which lasted for an hour. During that time, all outbound flights were indefinitely delayed. As of 6:15 p.m. Sunday, 956 flights had been delayed and 11 had been canceled at DIA, according to flight tracking software from FlightAware. United delayed the most flights on Sunday, 285, and another 258 Southwest flights failed to leave the gate on time. Regional airline SkyWest came in third with 241 flight delays. United also canceled seven flights Sunday, followed by three canceled Frontier flights and one canceled SkyWest flight, according to…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago (248+ words) A woman who had just boarded a Denver-bound flight was arrested in Tennessee this week after allegedly threatening people on the plane with a bomb, according to court records. Frontier Airlines flight attendants told Nashville police the woman wasn't allowed to fly because of how drunk she was, her arrest affidavit stated. The airline employees asked her to leave the plane multiple times, but the woman refused, allegedly saying, "I have a (expletive) bomb, so nobody is going anywhere." When police tried to remove the woman from the plane, she planted her feet behind the seats in an attempt to anchor herself. She then repeatedly yelled, "It's right there," in reference to the supposed bomb, according to her arrest affidavit. The incident delayed the Denver-bound flight by more than two hours, according to flight tracking software FlightAware. Nashville police arrived…...

21+ hour, 7+ min ago (194+ words) More than 200 flights were delayed and nearly two dozen were canceled at Denver International Airport on Saturday after early morning snow dusted the metro area. Roughly 0.2 inches of snow was recorded at the airport Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service. As of 11 a.m. Saturday, 231 flights headed in and out of DIA had been delayed and 20 had been canceled, according to flight tracking software FlightAware. No ground stops or ground delays were in effect at that time, but planes departing the Denver airport were being sprayed with deicing fluid to remove snow and ice, causing short delays on the runway, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Southwest delayed the most flights on Saturday at 89, followed by 75 United flights, 42 SkyWest flights and 10 American Airlines flights, according to FlightAware. Six other airlines delayed between one and six flights. United and SkyWest each…...