HowardBorden
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Agreed.
The city of Dallas can't pick and choose what part of the DOJs ruling to follow. Either they ignore it entirely and AA does not have to give up the gates. Or they follow it entirely, which would mean AA would sub lease to virgin.
I think the argument is that the settlement has AA relinquishing their rights to operate out of the gates and Dallas is claiming that if their rights to use the gates ceases then they revert back to city control as per their agreement with AA via the 5 party WA agreement. The DOJ is allowing AA to sub-lease the gates to Virgin in order to remain within the 5 party agreement, but Dallas is arguing that if AA can no longer use them themselves, they return to city control. I am of course only speculating all this from the public statements made by Dallas. I guess we will find out sometime today what Dallas has decided to do going forward. No doubt all of this will most likely end up in court with a judge making the final determination.