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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Suzanne Marta
Oct. 28--Tom Green hopes to spend Saturday morning in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's new Terminal D, reading the newspaper and sipping coffee.
That is, as long as everything goes as planned.
Mr. Green, American's project manager for the move to the international terminal, started working on the plans two years ago, coordinating departments and working contingency plans for every last detail.
After 6 a.m., American Airlines Inc. will welcome its first overseas passengers to the facility. Flights from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sao Paulo, Brazil and Santiago, Chile, all arrive within 17 minutes of each other.
Although D/FW's massive 2.1 million-square-foot international terminal opened in July, so far it has been dealing only with the airport's foreign airlines.
American's arrival marks the launch of full-scale operations.
For the past three months, Terminal D has handled about 20 flights per day. This weekend, American plans to start with 78 daily flights of its own, growing in the next few months to 115.
By far D/FW's largest carrier, American...
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