Originally Posted by
MWright
Perhaps you guys will now see the heartburn over giving up gates to airlines who have shown no interest in Love over the past 34 years. I would hardly call the pile of restrictions on their flying out of Love a "competitive advantage." The only reason that SWA has a "monopoly" out of Love is because the other airlines have: 1) Failed to make money doing the same restricted flying that SWA does, or 2) Not shown any interest in serving the airport.
Not really. Unless you care to address the fact that slot controlled airports in NY have, until recently held zero interest to SWA, but now they should be allowed zero bid (basically) contracts to those gates. Why should they get those gates over DAL or UAL or AMR for that matter?