Fort Worth Alliance Airport is the first purely industrial airport in the Western Hemisphere. The facility deals only with the transport of cargo, not passengers.

The airport can accommodate virtually any freight need and is a key component of the AllianceTexas planned community, which is located in northern Fort Worth. AllianceTexas was a construction development idea of Ross Perot Jr. more than two decades ago, and today the community features 7,100 single-family residences and 220 companies in its office and industrial parks – many of which utilize Fort Worth Alliance Airport for their industrial shipping needs.

The full-size airport can land jets of any size, and already houses an Antonov An-124 – a Russian-built aircraft that is the world's largest cargo plane. Fort Worth Alliance is also the Southwest regional sorting hub for FedEx. Besides North America, FedEx now offers daily service to Asia from the airport.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport is owned by the city of Fort Worth and managed by privately held Alliance Air Services. Also a key part of the airport is Foreign Trade Zone 196, which allows goods from foreign destinations to be brought into the country tax and duty free as long as they remain in the zone.

And there is news that cargo traffic at Fort Worth Alliance could grow significantly in the near future, because AllianceTexas is only 40 percent developed. A major addition will come in 2011 with the opening of a new hospital off Interstate 35W that will serve the area.