The station serves as the eastern terminus of Trinity Metro's TEXRail service, which connects the airport to Grapevine, North Richland Hills, and Fort Worth.

Original plans for the Cotton Belt Rail Corridor, which eventually became TEXRail and the Silver Line, did not call for a direct connection to the airport.

Instead, both services would terminate at DFW Airport North, a small park-and-ride closer to the rail corridor, which would then require a transfer to the Orange Line (or, in one proposal, an extension of the airport's Skylink people mover) for terminal access.

Construction required the demolition of a guideway used by the airport's now-defunct Airtrans system.

[1] When the corridor into the airport was constructed, it was built with two tracks: one for use by TEXRail, and one for use by the Silver Line.