Dallas · DAL · Southwest's home field · July 2026

Advertising at Southwest's home field

Dallas's close-in airport set a record 18 million passengers in 2024 through one terminal and a single 20-gate concourse, six miles from downtown, and Blindspot books its airside screens by the hour, matched to how Love Field's Southwest banks and corporate commutes actually move.

Updated June 15, 2026By Blindspot · location intelligence

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puts your brand airside via Blindspot

Dallas Love Field, large-format DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Dallas Love Field DAL · ticketing hall · Clear Channel AirportsBooked by the hour
The short answer● Quotable

Dallas Love Field advertising spans from a few cents per play on concourse and gate screens to premium arrivals-hall LED and spectacular digital walls. On Blindspot, Dallas Love Field screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.50, with no contracts or minimums.

The smart Dallas Love Field play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the departures bank in the morning, the security and concourse dwell through the day, the arrivals halls when the long-haul flights land.

BookingBy the hour
PricingPer play · upfront
MinimumsNone
Go liveWithin hours
DeliveryVerified play logs

Billboard ranking points

Dallas Love Field's billboard spots, ranked

Scored by Blindspot's location intelligence on visibility, dwell time, and footfall (directional, 1–10). Every one is bookable by the hour on the platform.

01

Ticketing hall

Best for: Finance · Tech · Launches

The ticketing hall catches every departing passenger at the counters and kiosks, the first dwell for a business-heavy Texas audience.

Visibility9
Dwell time8
Footfall8
02

Security checkpoint

Best for: Banking · Telco · B2B

The consolidated checkpoint runs slow, phone-down queues with clean sightlines, all 18 million passengers funneled through one space.

Visibility8
Dwell time9
Footfall6
03

20-gate concourse

Best for: Travel · FMCG · Apps

The single concourse seats the Southwest banks in holdrooms along one spine, 30 to 60 minutes of dwell before every departure.

Visibility7
Dwell time8
Footfall8
04

Concession Village

Best for: Premium · Spirits · Retail

The central Concession Village sits at the heart of the concourse, where relaxed travelers eat, shop and wait with money to spend.

Visibility7
Dwell time7
Footfall8
05

Baggage claim & arrivals

Best for: Hospitality · Real estate · Local

Arrivals wait at the carousels six miles from downtown, a captive audience of corporate travelers and returning Dallasites.

Visibility8
Dwell time6
Footfall7
06

Ground transport & curb

Best for: Mobility · Auto · Retail

The curb and the Love Link shuttle stop move every arriving passenger toward Mockingbird Lane, the tollway and downtown.

Visibility6
Dwell time7
Footfall6

The media estate · operator partners

Dallas Love Field screens, in the wild

Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Dallas Love Field's media owners, Lamar Airport Advertising, Clear Channel Airports, City of Dallas aviation media among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.

Dallas Love Field, Ticketing hall · digital network, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Ticketing hall · digital networkClear Channel Airports
Dallas Love Field, Security checkpoint · overhead LED, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Security checkpoint · overhead LEDClear Channel Airports
Dallas Love Field, 20-gate concourse · holdroom screens, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
20-gate concourse · holdroom screensClear Channel Airports
Dallas Love Field, Concession Village · premium lightbox, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Concession Village · premium lightboxClear Channel Airports
Dallas Love Field, Baggage claim · arrivals digital, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Baggage claim · arrivals digitalClear Channel Airports
Dallas Love Field, Curb & Love Link stop · exterior panel, real DOOH inventory bookable by the hour on Blindspot
Curb & Love Link stop · exterior panelClear Channel Airports

Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.

Formats

Every Dallas Love Field format, one map

From a single gate screen to a full arrivals-hall takeover, Blindspot puts Dallas Love Field's digital out-of-home on one map, each screen priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter airside and landside:

Departures & check-in LED

Large-format digital across check-in islands and departures, where every traveler dwells before security.

Security & checkpoint queues

Captive screens along the security and passport queues, minutes of guaranteed attention per passenger.

Concourses & gate holdrooms

Concourse and gate-lounge screens reaching seated, relaxed travelers with long airside dwell.

Arrivals halls & baggage reclaim

High-dwell arrivals and baggage-claim placements as passengers wait, the airport's longest captive window.

Jet bridges & boarding

Boarding-bridge and gate-side panels in the final moment before the flight.

Spectaculars & landmark LED

Iconic hall and atrium spectaculars for brand-statement reach across the whole terminal.

Location insights

Where Dallas Love Field moves

Love Field is the airport Dallas actually uses: six miles from downtown, one terminal, 20 gates, and Southwest Airlines running about 96 percent of the traffic from its corporate home field, with Delta and Alaska working the rest. It set a record 18 million passengers in 2024, up 12 percent on the year, and ACI named it North America's best airport in its size class for 2023 and 2024. The flow is the advertiser's dream: one ticketing hall, one checkpoint, one concourse, every passenger walking past Concession Village in the middle. The business banks skew frequent-flyer and Texas-corporate. Buy the Monday morning banks and the Friday getaway waves.

Dallas Love Field footfall heatmap · typical weekday● Stylized
Ticketing
Security
Gates
Village
Baggage
Curb
Ticketing hall
Checkpoint
Concourse spine
Concession Village
North holdrooms
Baggage claim
Arrivals corridor
Rental counters
Curbfront
Love Link stop
QuietPeak flow
Dallas Love Field · DOOH coverage map · stylized● per-play pricing
Stylized map of Blindspot DOOH screen locations across Dallas Love Field Per-play price pins across prime Dallas Love Field advertising zones over a footfall density wash. Stylized; live availability and per-screen pricing are shown in the Blindspot platform. Reunion Tower ◊ downtown Dallas 60+ $0.70$0.62$0.56$0.53$0.50 $0.80 SecurityGatesVillageBaggageCurbTicketing
FootfallPeak

Footfall rhythm · by hour

Commuterspeaks 7:30–10 AM & 5–8 PM
Shoppers & mallspeaks 12–8 PM
Nightlife & diningpeaks 8 PM–1 AM
12AM6AM12PM6PM11PM
Departures peak in the morning

Ticketing and check-in fill in the early-morning and late-afternoon banks. Book those hours and your frequency against business travelers climbs for the same budget.

Layover dwell, all day

Gates and the gate holdrooms hold seated, relaxed travelers for 60–90 minutes, long windows where dwell, not rush, does the work.

Arrivals land in waves

Village fills as long-haul flights land in banks, high-value international passengers with time to read. Swap creative to match who just arrived.

Location intelligence summary

One city, several audiences a day

Dallas Love Field doesn't have a rush hour; it has flight banks. Departures peak in the morning, long-haul arrivals land in waves, and between them travelers dwell for 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. The buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the banks when your audience is captive, skip the dead hours.

ObjectiveBook these zonesBest hours
Brand launch / premiumTicketing + BaggageAll day · long-haul banks
Business travelersTicketing, GatesWeekday 6–10 AM · 4–8 PM
Long-dwell layoversGates, Village10 AM–8 PM
International arrivalsVillage, CurbAligned to long-haul landing banks
Duty-free & retailTicketing, GatesDepartures peaks
Match the tide, not the calendar

A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Dallas Love Field’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.

Creative by daypart

Security-line passengers read in seconds; gate-side travelers dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.

Proof, not vibes

Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.

Book Dallas Love Field by the hour

Cite this

Key facts at a glance

Quotable, self-contained, sourced, Blindspot, June 2026

  • Dallas Love Field (DAL) set a record 18 million passengers in 2024, up about 12 percent on 2023, making it the fourth busiest airport in Texas.
  • Southwest Airlines calls Love Field home, running about 96 percent of the traffic and using 18 of the terminal's 20 gates daily.
  • The airport runs one terminal, one checkpoint and one concourse, the most predictable passenger flow of any major US airport.
  • ACI World named Love Field North America's best airport in the 15 to 25 million passenger class for both 2023 and 2024.
  • Downtown Dallas is six miles from the curb, with the DART Love Link shuttle connecting to the Green and Orange lines.
  • On Blindspot, DAL screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays from ~$0.50.

Pricing · updated June 2026

Dallas Love Field billboards: priced honestly

Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.

FormatPrice per playTypical presenceWhy it works
Ticketing hall screens & LEDfrom ~$0.50 per play$100 buys hourly ticketing-hall slotsevery departing traveler in one hall
Concourse & holdroom screensfrom ~$0.50 per play$100 buys hourly holdroom slotsseated dwell along one 20-gate spine
Baggage claim & arrivalsfrom ~$0.48 per play$100 buys belt-side reclaim timea captive, recently landed audience
Curb & ground transportfrom ~$0.48 per play$100 buys repeat curbfront exposureevery arrival heading downtown
Departures-core spectacularcustomflagship takeover of the ticketing halldominant share of voice over Southwest's home field

No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen

Four things move the price on any Dallas Love Field (DAL) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on departures-core spectacular than on ticketing hall screens & LED), the zone (Ticketing hall carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.

What a campaign costs

Dallas Love Field budgets, three ways

Because pricing is per play and hourly, there's no minimum, but here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.

Concourse test

$600-2,000

The holdrooms across a Monday morning Southwest bank

Multi-zone airport push

$9,000-28,000

Ticketing, the checkpoint, the concourse and Concession Village together

DAL flagship takeover

$55,000+

Dominant share of voice across the departures core, timed to the corporate travel season or the holiday waves

FAQ

Dallas Love Field billboard FAQs

Do I need a permit to advertise at Dallas Love Field (DAL)?

No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Lamar Airport Advertising, Clear Channel Airports among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.

Why advertise at Dallas Love Field?

Dallas Love Field handles roughly 18 million passengers a year, a captive, high-income, hard-to-reach audience that dwells 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. Few channels deliver that quality of attention.

What are the best placements at Dallas Love Field?

Arrivals halls and baggage reclaim lead for dwell and recall; departures and security queues for guaranteed exposure to every passenger; concourse and gate holdrooms for long, relaxed attention.

Can I book Dallas Love Field screens by the hour?

Yes. On Blindspot every Dallas Love Field screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum, so you can buy only the morning departures bank or the long-haul arrivals windows that match your audience.

Who operates advertising at Dallas Love Field?

The airport's media is run by operators such as Lamar Airport Advertising, Clear Channel Airports; Blindspot aggregates the bookable digital inventory onto one map, priced per play.

How fast can my ad go live at Dallas Love Field?

Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Approval typically averages around two business days across networks.

What can I get at Dallas Love Field for $500?

A multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell concourse or arrivals hall, or a concentrated burst on departures and security screens through the busiest morning banks.

How to book

Live on a Dallas Love Field screen in three steps

No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.

01

Pick screens & hours

Open the map, filter Dallas Love Field by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.

02

See the per-play price

Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.

03

Upload & go live

Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.

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