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HowardBorden

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It's official, VA gets the gates. Things should get interesting at Love.



(Reuters) - Virgin America on Friday said it would offer new flights from Dallas Love Field after it was awarded two gates at that airport by the U.S. Justice Department.
San Francisco-based Virgin America, a carrier in which Richard Branson's Virgin Group has a minority stake, said it will start flights between New York's LaGuardia, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Los Angeles and San Francisco airports and Dallas Love Field in October.
American Airlines Group agreed to give up the two Love Field gates Virgin America is receiving to settle a U.S. lawsuit that sought to block its merger with US Airways. Southwest Airlines, which controls 16 of 20 gates at Dallas Love Field, and Delta Air Lines had also expressed interest in the two gates.
Virgin America said it plans to move its current operations at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Love Field in October. DFW is the city's largest airport.
Virgin America recently won takeoff and landing rights at New York's LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that American Airlines also agreed to divest in the merger settlement. American was also required to give up gates at airports in Chicago, Miami, Boston and Los Angeles under that agreement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/virginamerica-dallas-idUSL2N0NH0XP20140425
 
It's official, VA gets the gates. Things should get interesting at Love.



(Reuters) - Virgin America on Friday said it would offer new flights from Dallas Love Field after it was awarded two gates at that airport by the U.S. Justice Department.
San Francisco-based Virgin America, a carrier in which Richard Branson's Virgin Group has a minority stake, said it will start flights between New York's LaGuardia, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Los Angeles and San Francisco airports and Dallas Love Field in October.
American Airlines Group agreed to give up the two Love Field gates Virgin America is receiving to settle a U.S. lawsuit that sought to block its merger with US Airways. Southwest Airlines, which controls 16 of 20 gates at Dallas Love Field, and Delta Air Lines had also expressed interest in the two gates.
Virgin America said it plans to move its current operations at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Love Field in October. DFW is the city's largest airport.
Virgin America recently won takeoff and landing rights at New York's LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that American Airlines also agreed to divest in the merger settlement. American was also required to give up gates at airports in Chicago, Miami, Boston and Los Angeles under that agreement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/virginamerica-dallas-idUSL2N0NH0XP20140425

Well, so much for Flopgut's Government-Southwest conspiracy theories.

Bubba
 
Too bad Glee wouldn't accept my bet that Delta would most assuredly not receive these gates. We could have basked in another month free of his bloviations.
 
Let the games begin and this should present yet another outlet for the SWA bashers, it must be great to be that successful that almost every thread on here turns into an SWA bash.
If SWA wasn't making so much money it would be laughable.
Remember what Herb did to the other airlines at DAL who tried to ruin him - all gone
 
Too bad Glee wouldn't accept my bet that Delta would most assuredly not receive these gates. We could have basked in another month free of his bloviations.

Howie was correct for once. Too bad the gates couldn't have been multi purpose or multi airline. I think DL was going to run 6 daily 717s to ATL and then a bunch of E175s all over. DL may actually get zilch, which is ridiculous. Oh well, I have a feeling DL will probably still make over $3 billion in profit this year anyway, even without the DAL gates.


Bye Bye---General Lee
 
Delta had a base in Dallas? Why do you think
AA wants VA out of DFW and to LOVE? VA can grow
Out of DFW all day long?!?! Hope the city gets
paid for their gates uses in a timely manner.
 

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