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Southwest Airlines, Delta continue spat over Dallas Love Field gates
Tuesday, 24 Jun, 2016
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Southwest Airlines has hit back at ‘misleading’ facts produced by Delta Air Lines in its ongoing legal spat for control of gates at Dallas Love Field Airport.
Southwest said Delta is being hypocritical by portraying itself as a victim.
"One particularly misleading part of Delta’s onslaught must be dispelled. Delta, the second-largest airline in the world, is not by any measure the victim of anticompetitive behavior by Southwest," it said in a filing to the appeals court.
Delta gained a stay of execution earlier this year, winning an injunction to allow it to continue flying from Love Field.
Southwest, which controls 18 of 20 gates at the airport, challenged this ruling.
Southwest claimed it has ‘priority’ over gate access at the airport based on the original terms of its lease.
It describes Atlanta based Delta as a ‘squatter.’
"The trial court’s injunction order erroneously reverses this ‘precedence’ and ‘priority,’ and should be vacated," Southwest reiterated in the filing.
"The city must provide accommodation where—as here—there was space on its gates at the time accommodation was requested," Delta said this month in their own submissions.
A district court had earlier said Delta could be accommodated at the airport without ‘interfering’ with Southwest’s own flight operations at the time.
The airport’s owner, The city of Dallas, had much earlier pulled out of mediation between the two carriers and left it to the legal process.
Delta argued the airport has an obligation to encourage competition by allowing access to other airlines.
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