Originally Posted by hotbreeze

Under the old legislation, DAL was limited to Texas, its adjacent states, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi. Anything outside those states could be flown in an airplane with 50 seats or less. Delta started service to ATL with the CRJ200 under that legislation and continued flights on that route now.

Under the new legislation, it is limited by 121 certificate. Virgin has a contract for 2 gates at DAL and makes less than ideal use of them. DAL is also gate limited by the legislation and no gates can be physically added. SWA has the rest of the gates and shares one gate with Delta.

My suspicion is, given the legislation, that this has not been thought out. I can guarantee all the airlines at DFW (or at least SWA) will legally challenge OO flying into both.