Dallas Clears Virgin America to Take Over American Air's Love Field Gates

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Virgin and Delta have a fifth of the available gates at Love Field, while Southwest retains everything else. It's interesting when Delta is the little guy.

The city of Dallas just announced that it was granting two gates at Dallas Love Field to Virgin America.

American Airlines was forced to give up the gates by the U.S. Department of Justice as a condition of its merger with US Airways. Southwest Airlines, which already controls 16 of Love Field's 20 gates, wanted the two gates and was applying considerable pressure on the city of Dallas.

City of Dallas has provided its consent to Virgin America sub-lease requested by American Airlines. Full statement forthcoming.
— City of Dallas (@CityOfDallas) May 12, 2014

Jason Clampet

May 12th, 2014 at 4:21 PM EDT

Tags: aa-us air merger, dallas, delta air lines, southwest airlines, virgin america

Photo Credit: Richard Branson rolled out his typical publicity blitz in an effort to sway public opinion in Virgin's way. Virgin America / Virgin America

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