What's with DFW cutting down all the trees??
 

The past few weeks I've noticed, in every terminal I've parked at, that all the trees are coming down. Not that it was anything spectacular to begin with but with trees these areas of the airport looked better than they do now.

Posting in the AAdvantage forum since it is an AA fortress hub, feel free to move if necessary.

Any bets on how long until someone suggests the trees are being cut down as part of AA's bankruptcy and the associated cost cutting efforts?

I bet someone determined a way to earn miles by doing so

Or USAir making way for a new headquarters... ;)

Installing wood-fired turbines in the MD-80s to save fuel costs?

Is it to do with reducing birds?

And now, moved to the appropriate forum. ;)

JDiver, Senior Moderator

Could be...or could be the trees have been infested/infected with one of a variety of diseases, etc. Could also be a security measure. That is about it for me...that's all the unsupported conjecture and speculation I can manage today. ;)

It might have to do with the terminal renovations.

Maybe it's a Dallas thing :(

With EVERY new construction seems they clearcut ALL trees, even if it produces an empty lot that will not be built on :td:

Too many examples to list :rolleyes:

EmailKid

If you really want to know, I'd ask them on Twitter or Facebook.

http://twitter.com/#!/dfwairport
https://www.facebook.com/DFWAirport

Maybe it's a Fort Worth thing

Maybe .... but didn't see trees cut down there when I lived there twenty years ago like they do in Dallas :(

Nor in Houston, and that was just a few years ago.

EmailKid

They do cut down trees here a lot, but are you sure they were alive?

A lot of trees and such died last summer with the drought and it seems that people are cutting them down more now that winter has ended and it is clear that the trees are not going to recover.

VERY SURE :(

I walk to work, so saw the buildings get torn down, then they bulldozed the smaller trees, leaving ones near the sidewalk alone. I knew this is Dallas, it would not last :(

Sure enough, a week or two later they came out with chainsaws and cut down about ten perfectly good trees (we're talking oaks and such). And this was about a year ago, so before last summer's drought, and the lot is still empty.

EmailKid